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I get tons of warnings "Command \textellipsis invalid in math mode" after I have switched to LuaLaTex. The warning comes from the unicode-math package, which I needed to set the math font. If I use \dots or \ldots (\vdots is ok) in math mode, the appearance is different from the text-mode version and I get a warning. If I use PDFLaTex or don't use unicode-math there is no difference in appearance and I get no warning.

Is this a bug (or at least is something not correctly implemented)? The MWE illustrates the problem:

% !TEX TS-program = lualatex
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{luainputenc}
\usepackage{unicode-math}

\begin{document}
Warning: $\dots$\\
Warning: $\ldots$\\
Warning: $\ldots$\\
OK: \dots\\
OK: \ldots\\
OK: $\vdots$
\end{document}

LuaLaTex output with unicode-math:

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PDFLaTex output:

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    Remove the call to luainputenc to begin with. Isn't it black magic? ;-) – egreg Jan 18 '14 at 14:47
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The luainputenc package should be loaded only with legacy documents, but never when the encoding is already UTF-8.

The package loads lutf8.def that has

\DeclareUnicodeCharacter{2026}{\textellipsis}

(which is an error, in my opinion, but it's another matter).

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  • Congrats on passing the 250K mark!! – Mico Jan 18 '14 at 15:07
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    @Mico Halfway to 500K. ;-) – egreg Jan 18 '14 at 15:42
  • @egreg: I have read that I need luainputenc but you are right, everything works like a charm even without this package! Thanks, but \dots and \ldots are still different in math and text mode if I use unicode-math. Maybe this is a "feature" although I have to say that I don't like it... ;) – user4811 Jan 18 '14 at 16:06
  • @user4811 Yes, it's a feature, I'm afraid. Tell who said you to use luainputenc that they're wrong. – egreg Jan 18 '14 at 16:07

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