Yeah, definitely stay away from anything non-ASCII in the syntax, but the narrower ellipsis character should be fine for display….
> On 15 Dec 2017, at 10:54, Marco Ciampa <ciam...@libero.it> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 11:38:00AM +0100, Clemens Koller wrote: >> On 2017-12-15 11:01, Marco Ciampa wrote: >>> On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 10:54:01AM +0100, Clemens Koller wrote: >>> >>>> I was also considering the ellipsis '...' but in classical ASCII, they >>>> are three characters wide, that's why I ended up with .., + or * to keep >>>> it short. >>> >>> ... and the problem with 3 chars is? >> >> It takes more space in the schematics. > > IMHO one more char (if not using Unicode...) is worth for being confusion > proof... > >>>> But since we arrived in Unicode, this can be solved by using the >>>> horizontal ellipsis single character: U+2026 '…' or in our case the >>>> midline horizontal ellipsis U+22EF '⋯'. >>> >>> Please do _not_ use Unicode for this -please- >> >> What are the issues you expect? >> Since these symbols are only used on display, I would not mind using them. > > Ok right, I was wrong, forget it. It's not a big issue anyway... > > -- > > > Marco Ciampa > > I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it. > > ------------------------ > > GNU/Linux User #78271 > FSFE fellow #364 > > ------------------------ > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
