Several different parts of the code need to know about placeholder
elements used to anchor annotations that refer to not-yet-rendered pages
of a document in a PDF. Centralize the logic for creating placeholders
and testing whether a node is inside a placeholder in one module.

A trivial changes it that the "Loading annotations" text now ends with
an ASCII "..." instead of unicode ellipsis "…". This is easier to type
since the text is not intended to be seen by the user.