General ⇒ ldots not working

[mischuin]

Hey everyone,
I am new user of latex and came across a problem seemingly silly, but I could not solve. The case is that the command \ldots is not being compiled. I compile and what results is "\ldots" instead of "...". Do I need a specific package to use this command? Has anyone experienced this? Can you help me?
I'm using Miktex 2.9 (Texworks) for Windows.

Thanks in advance,

Michelle

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Michelle,

welcome to the board!

Did you use \ldots within a verbatim environment or with \verb? In this it would be printed as it is, not expanded to dots.

Perhaps show example code for this problem.

Stefan

[mischuin]

Hi, Stefan! Thanks for the welcome.
No, I was not using it inside the verbatim environment, I was doing something else, as stupid as the other .. hehe ... I was using a forward slash(/) instead of backslash (\)

\ldots (correct)
/ldots (incorrect)

Anyway, thank so much for your help!
Perhaps I will return to ask about other stupid things here on the forum ...hehe.. after all, I'm starting to deal with LaTeX now .. hope you understand ..
Regards,

Michelle

[Stefan Kottwitz]

No problem, this can happen. Feel free to ask here, if there's another problem or if you need an explanation which you did not find in a LaTeX introduction or documentation.

Stefan