[bookshare-discuss] Re: ellipses
- From: "Merrill Louise" <STARBASEWILDGOOSE@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 19:37:44 -0400
Elipsies are used to indicate missing words. If you are quoting and want to
make your point crisply and need to eliminate words, sentences or paragraphs
you use elipsies.
Merrill Louise, Pastor
The Judson Fellowship
Jamestown, New York
cell/office 716.969.2840
"With all my heart I praise the Lord, and I am glad because of God my
Savior. (Luke 1:46-47)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 7:01 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: ellipses
> Thanks for the info, Kellie. Henceforth I'll eliminate
> the spaces.
>
> I'm going through all my mail now. If, when I've
> finished, I find that no one has clarified the
> difference between ellipses and em-dashes, I'll put on
> my former English-teacher/copy editor hat and see if I
> can.
>
> By the way, folks, using the keyboard one can use two
> dashes to make an em-dash. I'm doing that for the book
> I'm validating because it's a txt file and the
> em-dashes don't convert. I don't know what one wold do
> for an en-dash - just use a hypehn I guess -- but
> fortunately, those are rare. There was one book
> recently where the author used them -- I think it was
> Silk (and Donna, I'll get to Withou Blood very soon --
> I probably shouldn't have been so greedy and should
> have left it for someone else). It proably would have
> been o.k. to use a em dash but I wanted to be true to
> the author.
>
> Cindy
>
> Kellie Hartmann <kellhart@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi Cindy,
> > Actually, the spaces between the dots are
> > frustrating when reading braille.
> > The reason is that, unlike in print, the symbol for
> > the period and the
> > symbol for the dots in the ellipsis are not the same
> > symbol. So when there
> > are spaces between the dots they get translated
> > incorrectly as periods. In
> > braille the period is nothing like a dot, so this
> > isn't too wonderful. I
> > think they must be also correct without the spaces
> > because there is a
> > symbol, it can't be made on the keyboard but I think
> > MSWord will do it, that
> > is one symbol for an ellipsis, so the dots must be
> > together.
> > Kellie
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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