Am Dienstag, den 18.04.2017, 10:26 +0200 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes:
> > Why?
> 
> The fact is the you rely on an undocumented behavior of LyX to
> obtain 
> what you want :)

I wouldn't count it undocumented. It is obvious that the special char
inset outputs \ldots, so I need to redefine that macro. Would the
special char output \dots, I would have re-defined that.

In any case, we should not replace one macro by the other behind the
back of users, just because they are equivalent by default (outside
math, that is).

> I read a bit about \ldots, \dots and friends (in the LaTeX
> companion), 
> and it seems now that the situation is not very simple. It looks to
> me 
> like a case where the SpecialChar inset should output different
> things 
> depending on the language.

I don't think so. Rather than that, we could consider to support the
ellipsis (or xellipsis) package, or csquotes, or a combination of
those.

> What is a good reference on the subject?

The ellipsis manual, for a start:
http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/ellipsis/ellipsis.pdf

> 
> JMarc
> 
> 

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