[bksvol-discuss] ellipses
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 00:07:22 -0800 (PST)
>I do, too. I think we were asked to, once, though
probably it was by readers rather than bookshare. It's
easy enough to do, though I admit it doesn't look as
nice as when they're spaced. But I put the various
ways they're spaced--and they don't always scan
correctly so sometimes there are too many spaces
between the dots, or there's a comma instead of a
dote--and replace with three dots unspaced and no
space after the word preceding the dots or after them
before a quotation mark, if there is one. DItto when
there is a period at the end of a sentence and then
three dots, making 4 altogether.
Cindy Ro
> Given all this, I remove the spaces when I encounter
> them.
>
> Evan
>
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> Usually, in print, the elipsis (three dots) are
> spaced. I leave it that way, because it's the way it
> should be, and because any braille translation
> program with delete the spaces.
>
> Mickey
>
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> The spaces are not there in print.
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> Hi List,
> I was on this list years ago, and thought I'd
> rejoin for a while to
> see what the volunteer community is talking
> about. (I'm also currently
> unemployed, so I guess you could say I've got
> the time). Anyway, I'm
> Eliza from New York City.
> I've also got a question, and though this is
> a pretty trivial
> detail, I've wondered about it forever. When
> you see an elipsis in
> text, like when a speaker is cut off by another
> character, often I see
> the three periods and the close quotation mark
> all separated by spaces
> (so it would be . . . "). I sometimes take the
> interveneing spaces
> out so that the last word, the elipsis and the
> close quote are all
> connected, because I think this is always how it
> appears in braille.
> Is this correct? In print, are the spaces
> always present, or is this
> something OpenBook is doing?
> Thanks,
> Eliza
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