Comments on: In Search of a 4-Dot Ellipsis http://www.dailywritingtips.com/in-search-of-a-4-dot-ellipsis/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:06:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: Rob @ Forkoff http://www.dailywritingtips.com/in-search-of-a-4-dot-ellipsis/comment-page-1/#comment-395241 Rob @ Forkoff Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:47:16 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=2246#comment-395241 This seems to be another case of Americans taking something which is globally recognised and trying too hard to it their own. There are no spaces in an ellipsis... period! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis This seems to be another case of Americans taking something which is globally recognised and trying too hard to it their own.

There are no spaces in an ellipsis… period!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis

]]> By: Sarah http://www.dailywritingtips.com/in-search-of-a-4-dot-ellipsis/comment-page-1/#comment-386998 Sarah Tue, 03 May 2011 00:52:39 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=2246#comment-386998 Okay. So if you're not ending a sentence or deleting something, and you're just using it as a trail off...or a bridgeway to a new idea...is it always three dots? Or is it also grammatically correct to put four? Okay. So if you’re not ending a sentence or deleting something, and you’re just using it as a trail off…or a bridgeway to a new idea…is it always three dots? Or is it also grammatically correct to put four?

]]> By: Joyce Hoffman http://www.dailywritingtips.com/in-search-of-a-4-dot-ellipsis/comment-page-1/#comment-342232 Joyce Hoffman Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:28:24 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=2246#comment-342232 I agree with Hank. What's working for you and your job, and those with whom you communicate, should remain sacrosanct. However, in a corporate environment, you have to be flexible in order to meet the standards of the client. One of the questions you should ask a new client is, what guidelines are you following, in order to "be on the same page." I agree with Hank. What’s working for you and your job, and those with whom you communicate, should remain sacrosanct.

However, in a corporate environment, you have to be flexible in order to meet the standards of the client. One of the questions you should ask a new client is, what guidelines are you following, in order to “be on the same page.”

]]> By: Hank Roberts http://www.dailywritingtips.com/in-search-of-a-4-dot-ellipsis/comment-page-1/#comment-337123 Hank Roberts Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:45:54 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=2246#comment-337123 Arguments over right and wrong can go on forever. The key is to pick one style manual, and follow it so the meaning of the symbols used is understood -- for the writer, editor, copy editor, fact checker, typist, typesetter, and reader. I go by CMS (now 16th ed.) if it's my choice. It isn't always my choice. CMS: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/search.epl?q=ellipsis&site=cms16dev&search_edition=16 Briefly: an ellipsis is something left out; ellipsis points are the three dots showing where an ellipsis occurred; they may be horizontal (text) or vertical (some math). I take great care about the spaces, whether before or after the ellipsis points, so it's clear if and where a sentence ended. There is not a right and wrong. What's right is agreeing on and following rules you _choose_ to work under in cooperative writing and publishing, from publicly available and understood rules that readers can find and understand so they can work back to find and understand the original in context without being misled. Arguments over right and wrong can go on forever. The key is to pick one style manual, and follow it so the meaning of the symbols used is understood — for the writer, editor, copy editor, fact checker, typist, typesetter, and reader.

I go by CMS (now 16th ed.) if it’s my choice. It isn’t always my choice.

CMS: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/search.epl?q=ellipsis&site=cms16dev&search_edition=16

Briefly: an ellipsis is something left out; ellipsis points are the three dots showing where an ellipsis occurred; they may be horizontal (text) or vertical (some math).

I take great care about the spaces, whether before or after the ellipsis points, so it’s clear if and where a sentence ended.

There is not a right and wrong. What’s right is agreeing on and following rules you _choose_ to work under in cooperative writing and publishing, from publicly available and understood rules that readers can find and understand so they can work back to find and understand the original in context without being misled.

]]> By: Rod http://www.dailywritingtips.com/in-search-of-a-4-dot-ellipsis/comment-page-1/#comment-138943 Rod Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:57:36 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=2246#comment-138943 There is no such a thing as a .... four dot ellipsis There is no such a thing as a …. four dot ellipsis

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