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Q&A What is the preferred way to type out ellipses?

Speaking as a writer, editor, and typesetter: use three dots, no spaces. The spaces are unattractive and potentially allow the line to break mid-ellipsis. As far as the "high ASCII" character, th...

posted 13y ago by Lauren Ipsum‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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#4: Attribution notice removed by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-13T11:59:54Z (over 4 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T01:07:45Z (over 4 years ago)
Speaking as a writer, editor, _and_ typesetter: use three dots, no spaces.

The spaces are unattractive and potentially allow the line to break mid-ellipsis. As far as the "high ASCII" character, those occasionally get chewed up in file translation (I just got a file from a client where all the smart double quotes had turned into random accented characters). Three periods together (or four, at the end of a sentence) will never be broken or changed into anything else.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2011-01-28T14:20:49Z (over 13 years ago)
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