https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154766
--- Comment #6 from toddwar...@duck.com --- Note: This bugzilla is not asking how to insert a U+2026. That's not the issue. It's that the U+2026 is an APA-styled ellipsis (three dots, no spacing between). Most other styles require and ellipsis formatted as three dots, spaced between. I hope that wasn't confused. Anyway . . . Can someone comment who has written for traditional publication, please? Maybe that is no one. Dunno. What you shared is 100% a workaround. Well, except for this, which doesn't even rise to that level: "Not seeing an issue. U+2026 with OpenType stylistic alternative for the opened spacing of the ellipsis is already supported--UI is the Character dialog." That only works if you use a typeface that will support it (none do that I know of, and not Times New Roman) and only if you know how to trigger it. 99.999% of the users do not. I have long had LibreOffice autocorrect to .[NBSP].[NBSP].. That is definitely a workaround and not an end solution. That is also what everyone largely does, or they just use three spaced-out dots and individually deal with the resulting word wrap and formatting issues. This is fine-ish. But it is a brute-force, non-ideal solution. Plus, it breaks the grammar-checker and other things since LibreOffice doesn't see an ellipsis. Whatever. My RFE was a stab in the dark. I expected this response pretty much since no one from the word-processing world has resolved it. It'll take the Unicode community to make it a reality, I am sure. In the meantime, I hope I triggered someone to think about it. Cheers. -t P.S. The two dashes '--' that you used above instead of an emdash '—' is also no longer a "workaround" if you are publishing professionally. An actual emdash is expected. Thank goodness that's available. Maybe someday the Chicago/MLA/etc-style ellipsis will be as well. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
