> > Doesn't it look typographically even better as `\|.\|.\|.\&'. > > I think this is what eqn sequence `. . .' gets translated into. > > In general, this depends on language and style guide.
Indeed. Within groff, James always has used .\|.\|. for situations like 1, 2, ... (and this is basically the way I want to use ellipses). I want to stay with it. Werner