Ellipsis (dot dot dot) at the end of a title is removed

Hello,

Most people use ... (dot dot dot) instead of (the proper ellipsis mark), but dots are automatically removed at the end of a title.
Would that be possible to implement a specific case so that “dot dot dot” in titles are no longer removed (or even better: automatically replaced by ellipsis) ?

Cheers

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While not specifically for an ellipsis, we do have the title prettify setting, which when disabled would allow for ... (it would also enable other things in titles like all caps and !!!! or ???? so you’d want to keep an eye out for bad titles)

You’d likely need a plugin if you wanted to check for ... and replace it with

Are you running into titles that should have an ellipsis quite often? Our reasoning was that there isn’t much of a difference between

I'm not sure how to write a good title...

and

I'm not sure how to write a good title

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Thank you for your answer.

I agree that a full stop makes no difference at the end of a title (and is not used, as a general rule, at the end of titles, headings or captions).
Conversely, ellipsis has several meanings and will definitely make a difference if present:
I sell a bike, a pair of skis, (slightly weird, is there something missing? And why merging these two items in a single topic?)
I sell a bike, a pair of skis, ... (ok, probably selling all my sports gear, there are plenty of things and I write a single message for everything, that makes sense).

I think there are quite a lot of examples, where ellipsis has an unfinished thought meaning, where a title would completely lost its meaning if ellipsis is absent:
This software is not the most user friendly one, but
This software is not the most user friendly one, but...

To my point of view, it would clearly be an improvement to the actual title prettify settings to allow this specific punctuation.

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This will not be happening. If you want that odd case, disable the rule.

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i will rather tune it so that it behaves exactly the way i want.
Thanks for your help

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If at the end of a title to a new post, the user adds three ASCII periods, they will get silently removed, changing the meaning of the user’s title.

He might never notice what happened.

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We do prefer titles to be descriptive, so ending in an ellipsis is generally not preferred.

It comes from title prettify:

And, just to note, you have a tendency to refer to all users as ‘he’. If you could be less gendered/perhaps not use the third-person so frequently it would be most appreciated. :pray:

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Well I guess this will just mean we’ll all have to use this Unicode character “…” .

But I’m telling you three dots is different than an accidental extra single period or even two periods.

Otherwise you might as well remove “?”, “!” And other significant punctuation.

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I’ve just spotted this other one in the Similar Topics, so I’m going to combine them together. :+1:

오늘 사내 포럼에 글을 쓰다가 이 문제를 겪었습니다.

제품에서 생략호가 과도하게 사용되고 있다는 점을 지적하려고 다음과 같은 제목을 지었는데요:

Over-use of…

그런데 이걸로 변해버렸습니다.

Over-use of

반복해서, 또 반복해서, 또 반복해서. :angry:

결국 효과를 본 방법은 (공백에 주목하세요) 다음과 같았습니다:

Over-use of . . . .

마지막 생략호가 자동으로 잘려 나갔기 때문에 4개를 사용해야 했습니다 :melting_face:

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가끔 쓰는 용도라면 Jidanni님의 우회 방법을 사용해 문자를 복사해서 붙여넣으셔도 될 것 같습니다:

다만 제 휴대폰으로 주제를 생성하고 제목을 Over-use of…(마침표 3개를 개별적으로 입력)로 지으면, 이 역시 작동하는/보이는 생략 부호(…)로 변환됩니다. 모든 휴대폰에서 그런 변환이 일어나는지는 확실하지 않지만, 제한 사항을 우회하는 또 다른 방법이 될 수 있습니다.

물론 생략호가 오타가 아니라 언어의 일부라는 것을 알고 있습니다. 하지만 이 설정이 생략호까지 수정하지 않기를 바랍니다. 오타가 아니기 때문이니까요… :wink:

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