Re: text-overflow: ellipsis

Bert Bos:
>
>     +----------------+
>     |   Here is a rig|ht-aligned text
>     +----------------+
>
>     +----------------+
>     |   Here is a... |
>     +----------------+
>
> Another subtle point is that the ellipsis on the first line should  
> be after the "a" and not after the space. The space is not really a  
> character (except in preformatted text), but a piece of mark-up  
> that creates a word separator.

This may be the case in English (typography) and probably others, but  
elsewhere, e.g. in German, an ellipsis adjoined to a letter or  
(partial) word indicates truncation of the word, whereas truncation  
of a sentence was shown by an ellipsis after a space (after a word or  
mark).