[Bioc-devel] Biostrings: unicode character ("compact ellipsis") in print()/show() output (2nd attempt, rephrased)

[Vincent Carey]

I have a feeling that the best way to get action here will be to file an
issue
and perhaps a PR at https://github.com/Bioconductor/Biostrings

On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 7:12 AM Ulrich Bodenhofer <bodenhofer using bioinf.jku.at>
wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> As noted in my previous message, I have encountered problems with the
> new way of displaying sequences/sequence sets that now use a UTF-8
> ellipsis character (internally defined as R object 'compact_ellipsis' in
> the package) when the output is included in a LaTeX document (which
> happens when printing biological sequences via the 'Biostrings' package
> inside LaTeX-based Sweave or knitr documents). My question again: Is
> there any special measure that I can take to counteract this issue?
> (e.g. like loading \usepackage[xxx]{inputenc} in the vignette, setting
> an option, or manually refining 'compact_ellipsis') Is there a way that
> the users can revert to the old-style dots for such cases?
>
> As a sidenote: this causes the building of my package 'apcluster' to
> break on a non-UTF-8 locale
> (
> https://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang/apcluster-00check.html),
>
> but leads to warnings also in a UTF-8 locale.
>
> Any help is gratefully appreciated, thanks so much in advance!
>
> Best regards,
> Ulrich
>
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