Hi all,
Kristin, let me clarify. You've got two problems here. Let's take 'em
in order.
First, RE elipses, they should consist of three dots in a row followed
by a space, unless there is punctuation like quotation marks. If the
elipsis comes in the middle of the sentence I believe there should be a
space on either side of it. I may be wrong about the preceeding space,
but the following space should be there unless there is other punctuation.
Now, as far as the graphical elipsis goes, this is a graphic which is
inserted by MSWord and does not translate into Braille. You have to
tell Word to quit inserting these graphics. There are full
instructions in the new manual for proofers. The info you want is in
the appendix.
What I've done is make a bookmark for this web page and any time I have
a question, I go to the manual. Best to use what the manual says now.
It may change later, but follow it now.
Ann P.
Original message:
Hey there everyone!
Hopefully everyone is having a great day today! This is Kristin Mills
with an ellipsis question again and I am sort of confused about which
format we are to use since I was told one way for one of my books and
now the guidelines are explaining something else entirely. Okay here’s
the format I used in my last book of the following of:
A line of text with the three or four periods together with no spaces
A line of text with three or four periods together with a quote behind
them along with no spaces again.
In the new guidelines it’s telling me to have the three periods in a
row so does that mean we are to leave them alone or keep bumping them
up against the text? So is that why they are calling my three periods
without any spaces a graphical ellipsis? If that’s the case, then
should I just remove the periods away from the text? Sorry for the
extremely lengthy e-mail here but I’m not sure of how to correct the
graphical ellipsis’s this time and any help or assistance with this
one would be greatly greatly greatly appreciated! Thanks for your
cooperation and help with this stuff and I do hope everyone is having
a great day!
Kristin
P.S. If you guys need more examples from me of what I’m talking about
here then just let me know because I am trying to get the ellipsis
correct for this book! Thanks again!
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