[bksvol-discuss] Re: ellipses

  • From: "Curtis Delzer" <curtis@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:31:52 -0700

Many authors use ... between thoughts in a single quoted line, Karen Kijewski, 
Mary Higgins Clark and others.

Curtis Delzer
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:50:11 -0400, Shelley L. Rhodes wrote:

Actually if you look at an elipsis in print it is really a space between 
them.  though if you tipe... it is also acceptable but there is still space 
between the periods, as they don't take up the whole length of a character 
like the letter b or m, or n, does.  so . . . is fine or ... is fine. 
Indeed the no space in a vraille elipsis is one of those rules the committee 
deciedd upon in 1932 during the depression to save Braille paper.


Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
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