[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 154766] management of ellipsis variants

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154766

--- Comment #4 from toddwarner at duck.com ---
Those workarounds are certainly helpful and seem (without me testing them) more
robust than the usual workarounds everyone already does. But they are still
workarounds. They are techniques that today represent what we can all agree to
call the _Thoughts and Prayers_ approach. I.e., an approach that is useful only
because a real solution doesn't yet exist. I kid . . . a little. :)

But this Bugzilla is not an RFE for improved workaround documentation (though
that would be nice as well). It's an RFE to explore a solution for normal,
non-technical, people. Something more seamless. I.e., hide all that behind some
better UI. ? Ensure the grammar checker sees an ellipsis and not three dots?
Etc. etc.

An aside, because it is only worth an aside: The glyph. Yes, I have contacted
Monotype to add this widely used variant of the ellipsis to the Times New Roman
typeface (a manuscript submission requirement for many/most publishing houses).
Still, I am not holding my breath there, either. It should be noted that
publishing houses are well aware of this technical wart, so often, they are
forgiving if you slap in APA ellipses throughout your document instead.

So far, I have reached out to you guys, the Unicode community (hard "No" from
them: "Against Policy" . . . Wuh?, I mean we have different dashes. Grr.), and
Monotype ("Sorry, we are too busy cashing OS vendor checks to actually work on
anything."). I haven't reached out to Adobe (Courier font—still expected for
screenplays, etc.)

Look, I know this is not a clear, simple ask, but I figured some clever people
are hacking away on LibreOffice who may see this as an interesting challenge.
But, yeah, a great workaround doc would be awesome as well. ;) But what an
interesting feature that would make LibreOffice that much more interesting to
the writing community. Plus, some wordprocessor vendor has to be first. Right?

Cheers. -t

For further reading, I just stumbled on an article on this topic:
https://cmosshoptalk.com/2019/07/30/dot-dot-dot-a-closer-look-at-the-ellipsis/

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