Commands eliminating word separation

[pauloney]

The following snapshot show the command \dots eliminating the separation between words

\documentclass{report}

\begin{document}
etc\dots who will be counted
\end{document}

and producing:

etcwho will be counted

This happens to other commands of the same type like;

\documentclass{report}

\begin{document}
No final da\index{Q.E.D.} demonstração.
\end{document}

and it is even worst in some case where quotations disapear like in:

...
echo 'complete\dots'' because' | detex
...

where the following problems occur:

• the punctuation (\dots) is not preserved
• the quotation-mark dissappears
• the spaces dissappears, joning the two words.

The same thing happens to the construct:

  Hipparchus\marginnote{Encore lui!}

The note is joined to the text.