![]() ![]() I confess that I find the above two examples aesthetically inelegant, especially the second. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. We are stricken by no plague of locusts…. The directions … are unnecessarily complicated.Īnd yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. The only way to keep three periods together is to eliminate the spaces. Fellow bloggers will understand.) Not only does the break in the ellipsis confuse, but it looks ugly. (HTML does provide a special code for a non-breaking space, but that’s just a hassle. ![]() The reason is simple: in HTML (the language used by blogging programs) two or more periods with a space in-between can be broken into different lines, depending on the browser. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it.īut longtime readers will have observed that this is not how I construct an ellipsis on my blog. For example:Īnd yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. If one or more complete sentences are omitted, the ellipsis immediately follows the terminal period. For example, if one or more words are omitted within a sentence, it looks like this: It’s principal use is to indicate the omission of words or sentences in a quotation. Back in high school and college I was taught that an ellipsis consisted of three periods, with a space both before and after each. One problem continues to plague me: how best to punctuate an ellipsis. I have been blogging a long time now, probably close to seventeen years. ![]()
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