Re: [Docutils-users] rendering ellipsis_

[David G. <go...@py...>]

[Kjetil Torgrim Homme]
> in order to render ``...`` correctly, LaTeX wants ``\ldots``, and HTML
> wants ``…``.  it would be nice if Docutils did this
> transformation.

Docutils doesn't do text
transformations like that (changing "..." to a single ellipsis
character).  For the reasons why, please see
<http://docutils.sf.net/docs/dev/rst/alternatives.html#character-processing>.

Question 2.7 of the FAQ (http://docutils.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html)
directly addresses this issue.  Short summary: enter the real ellipsis
character, using UTF-8 or another encoding, or a workaround.

The LaTeX writer already translates U+2026 to "\dots".  Is that
equivalent to "\ldots"?  (I'm not a TeX expert.)

-- 
David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger>