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

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

--- Comment #8 from toddwarner at duck.com ---
(Note, I didn't file a bug. I filed an RFE.) Anyway . . .

I am just adding this bit to clear things up though I see this as being
dismissed, but someone may find it educational someday.

1. I keep typoing. Grr. AP-style (Associated Press) is what I meant. That's the
style guide that drove the 3-dots, no-spacing-between formatting, even though
the other is more common. Coincidentally, APA-style (largely only used by the
shrink community) also adopted that style. Regardless . . .

2. I see how you're fundamentally not understanding this now. You see an
ellipsis as three dots in a row. Which it isn't. For example, at the end of a
sentence your eyes may see 4 dots, but that's not what is happening. It's an
ellipsis and a period.

An ellipsis is treated as a word. An unbreakable, single-character word.
Grammar and spell checkers and word counters see it as a word. A word that has
a meaning: an ellipsis.

As I said, I was just hoping there was a better workaround than changing up the
auto-correct to dish out a .[NBSP].[NBSP]. but perhaps I was hoping for too
much. Maybe the Unicode community will solve this for us.

Have a great weekend, folks. -t

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