three dots: dot leaders or ellipsis?
rastignak
articulated/worded?
I mean the ...
Does it have a name like dot leaders?
Alan OBrien
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When I was young I called it three little dots.
I now call it an ellipsis.
Do you remember Monty Python?
"And now...............
Fifteen little white dots."
Alan
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Robert Lieblich
>
> "rastignak"wrote
> > What do you call the three dots that indicate continuity that is not
> > articulated/worded?
> > I mean the ...
> > Does it have a name like dot leaders?
>
> When I was young I called it three little dots.
>
> I now call it an ellipsis.
There are those who call it (them?) "suspension points," as I
learned during a prior thread on AUE. See
<http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=suspension+points>.
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Christopher Green
I use "ellipsis". "Dot leaders" are used in typesetting things like
tables of contents, to provide a visual guide across a river of
whitespace.
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Odysseus
>
> I use "ellipsis". "Dot leaders" are used in typesetting things like
> tables of contents, to provide a visual guide across a river of
> whitespace.
>
repetitions as necessary, while an "ellipsis" comprises exactly three
dots (not necessarily spaced the way three periods would appear if so typed).
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Odysseus
Christopher Green
Four if the elision includes the end of a sentence.
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Odysseus
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> Four if the elision includes the end of a sentence.
>
spacing between the third dot and the first two will usually be
noticeable, depending on the font design and letterspacing.
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Cece
Four dots should be typeset as a period followed by the ellipsis. . .
.
The ellipsis itself has space before, after, and between . . . like
this.
Of course, that was so when typesetting was done by actual
typesetters, not misinformed computers.
Cece
meirman
ceceliaa...@yahoo.com (Cece) posted:
>Odysseus <odysseu...@yahoo-dot.ca> wrote in message news:<40FB8B12...@yahoo-dot.ca>...
>> Christopher Green wrote:
>> >
>> > Four if the elision includes the end of a sentence.
>> >
>> That would be an ellipsis followed by a period; the difference in
>> spacing between the third dot and the first two will usually be
>> noticeable, depending on the font design and letterspacing.
>
>Four dots should be typeset as a period followed by the ellipsis. . .
What if the rest of the sentence is elided, and also the rest of the
paragraph? :)
>.
>
>The ellipsis itself has space before, after, and between . . . like
>this.
>
>Of course, that was so when typesetting was done by actual
>typesetters, not misinformed computers.
>
>Cece
s/ meirman If you are emailing me please
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Odysseus
>
> Odysseus <odysseu...@yahoo-dot.ca> wrote in message news:<40FB8B12...@yahoo-dot.ca>...
> > Christopher Green wrote:
> > >
> > > Four if the elision includes the end of a sentence.
> > >
> > That would be an ellipsis followed by a period; the difference in
> > spacing between the third dot and the first two will usually be
> > noticeable, depending on the font design and letterspacing.
>
> Four dots should be typeset as a period followed by the ellipsis. . .
> .
>
*paragraph* following a complete sentence. Where the final words of a
*sentence* are omitted, the white space following the last word
present provides a cue to the reader that there's a 'loose end'.
Encountering the period first, his sentence-parsing machinery might
trip up, momentarily trying to analyze a phrase or fragment as a
complete thought.
> The ellipsis itself has space before, after, and between . . . like
> this.
>
Not as large as a word-space, though, in most fonts.
> Of course, that was so when typesetting was done by actual
> typesetters, not misinformed computers.
>
Some in the trade would say that a "typesetter" is also a machine --
one even less capable of being informed than is a computer -- as
opposed to a human "compositor" -- who, informed or otherwise, does
the bidding of editors, designers, publishers, salesmen, writers, et
al. So I figure it boils down to "a distinction without a difference".
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Odysseus