On 3/14/01 6:01 AM, "Christian M. M. Brady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3/14/01 6:34 AM, "Tim Mountford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Stardate 10/3/01 1:03 am, Allen Watson's log:
>>> Try it without leaving a space after the last dot...like this! I think,
>>> stylistically, that is correct.
>>
>> As someone with a modicum of typographic training (should I brag and say an
>> honours degree?) an ellipsis SHOULD be both preceded and followed by a
>> space. However usage varies according to style and it is common for ellipses
>> to be merely followed by a space. Trouble is the MS Auto-correct will
>> automatically capitalize when it sees a period followed by a space.
>
> Tim,
>
> So if you have an ellipsis at the end of the sentence should it have a
> period as well? "She kept going on, and on, and on ...."
>
It seems to me than an ellipsis at the "end" implies that the end has been
abrogated - that we don't know what the end might have been, that there is
no end. I've never seen a period afterwards �
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Paul Berkowitz
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