diff --git a/doc/trader.6 b/doc/trader.6
index 778cd90..cfdb3d6 100644
--- a/doc/trader.6
+++ b/doc/trader.6
@@ -23,11 +23,19 @@
 .\"
 .\"
 .\" *********************************************************************
-.\" Various macros
+.\" Various settings, character sequences and macros
 .\"
 .\" Allow hyphenation
 .hy 14
 .\"
+.\" Character sequences
+.ie !n \{\
+.char \[hellip] \[u2026]\"	U+2026 Horizontal ellipsis
+.\}
+.el \{\
+.char \[hellip] ...\"		Three full stops
+.\}
+.\"
 .\" Define .URL, .MTO and .FTP, then try to load the www.tmac version
 .de URL
 \\$2 \(la\\$1\(ra\\$3
@@ -205,7 +213,7 @@ and saved to this location instead.  This is for compatibility with
 versions of Star Traders prior to version 7.15.
 .\" *********************************************************************
 .SH BUGS
-None yet known...
+None yet known\[hellip]
 .\" *********************************************************************
 .SH FEEDBACK
 Your comments, suggestions, corrections and enhancements are always
@@ -298,11 +306,11 @@ for this purpose.  Although completely rewritten, the original algorithms
 were reused from previous versions.  Version 6.0 of the game was released
 on 15th September, 1995.
 .PP
-Star Traders was then to languish until almost 16 years later... when the
-game was rewritten once again, this time in the C programming language.
-Version 7.0 was released on 25th July, 2011 for Unix-like operating
-systems such as Linux, with subsequent releases to add features and
-correct bugs.  Now you, too, can run this small piece of computing
+Star Traders was then to languish until almost 16 years later\[hellip]
+when the game was rewritten once again, this time in the C programming
+language.  Version 7.0 was released on 25th July, 2011 for Unix-like
+operating systems such as Linux, with subsequent releases to add features
+and correct bugs.  Now you, too, can run this small piece of computing
 history!
 .\" *********************************************************************
 .SH "SEE ALSO"