- From: Ambrose Li <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 23:16:44 -0400
- To: "James Elmore" <James.Elmore@cox.net>
- Cc: "Christoph Päper" <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>, "W3C style mailing list" <www-style@w3.org>
2008/8/5 James Elmore <James.Elmore@cox.net>: > > That is something I want to interject in this discussion. While not an > expert in typography, I am aware that an ellipsis may fulfill several > functions. As Christoph pointed out, two of those functions are: indicating > missing words and indicating missing letters. (I am speaking about English, > and probably other Western languages as well in these cases.) If there is a > space before the ellipsis, the preceding is a complete word and the removed > chunks are probably words as well. If there is no space before the dots, the > missing pieces are assumed to be letters and a complete word is NOT the last > thing on the line (before the dots). AFAIK, in English typography, the ellipsis ONLY serves to fill in missing words; it is never used for filling in missing letters (which is a job traditionally performed by, iirc, some sort of a dash). -- cheers, -ambrose The 'net used to be run by smart people; now many sites are run by idiots. So SAD... (Sites that do spam filtering on mails sent to the abuse contact need to be cut off the net...)
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