[bookshare-discuss] Re: elipses
- From: Brenda Mueller <brendin@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:03:28 -0400
I don't know if it helps, but I read your paragraph with voice note. That
punctuation created a pause at just the right time.
Does that help?
Brenda Mueller
> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "boomerdad" <boomerdad@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 01:24:20 -0700
>Subject: [bookshare-discuss] elipses
>Okay, I don't know if they're called elipses or not--elipses may be referring
>to journalistic dots to signify words being removed from quoted text or
>dialogue. What I'm talking about is in fiction, when there are dots in the
>narrative. I ask one of you sighted folk here to help me settle an issue once
>and for all that's been bugging me for quite some time. Here's a fake
>paragraph illustrating what I'm talking about:
>John walked into the bar ...
>... and found himself staring into the eyes of his beloved.
>"John..." she breathed.
>"Susan...?" he responded.
>"... You're ... looking well," she stammered.
>Anyway, you get the idea. I'm overusing them, just to make sure there's no
>doubt about what I'm referring to.
>My question is this: I don't know how to fix these dots. Many times, instead
>of being clumped together there are spaces between them. (instead of "..."
>you get ". . ."). Sometimes, when someone is speaking, there's a space
>between the last word of dialogue ("John..." instead of "John ..."), and when
>the dots occur at the beginning or end of a narrative paragraph, I never know
>whether to put spaces between the last word and the dots or not, or, as the
>case may be, the first word of the new paragraph and its dots. OCR isn't
>consistent as to how to deal with this, and I'd just like to know how to fix
>them when they're wrongly recognized. Yes, it's petty, and doesn't interfere
>with legibility ... but I'm a perfectionist in my own editing, and would like
>to know this for my own writing as well; I may not be putting spaces where
>there should be spaces and such. What's the "right" way to use these? How's
>it done in print books? Thanks.
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