Re: [Docutils-users] rendering ellipsis_

[Kjetil T. H. <kje...@if...>]

On ons, 2004-10-06 at 20:53 -0400, David Goodger wrote:
> [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>.

ah.  a text-replace directive looks like a very nice solution for this.
I could then make a file with the transformations I like and include it
in my files.

I can't simply add a simplistic preprocessor (such as a sed script),
since it doesn't know about reST syntax.  it would mangle literals and
usage such as

  Subsubsection
  .............

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

sorry, I got it wrong.  it's called \ldots in a math environment, so
\dots and $\ldots$ are equivalent.

-- 
Kjetil T.