Quote Originally Posted by gwpriester View Post
I always type an ellipse [sic] with spaces so . . . vs ...
The proper ellipse is seldom used in contemporary typography
If you do that, you need to set non-breaking spaces or future edits may break the fake ellipsis.
A non-breaking space is a pain to type in: Alt+0160 on the number pad.
An ellipsis is a genuine form of punctuation and so screen-readers can offer up its correct semantic meaning to those visually impaired.
An ellipsis glyph is only one em wide so it can easily become lost or overlooked.

You are trading 5 characters for one. I accept that it is more impactful, especially if you also want to kern the spaces or track the collection.
My personal solution, I have mapped ... to … . . . in Auto correction with hard (Alt+0160) spaces so I can pick either. Auto correction doesn't handled Kerning or Tracking.

https://creativepro.com/dot-dot-dot/ is worth a read.

Acorn