[FFML] [Crossover] [Drabble] Two Wizards

Larry F lwf58 at cvalley.net
Wed Jul 3 16:18:30 PDT 2013


On 7/3/2013 8:34 AM, Mythril Moth wrote:
>>> Slightly forgivable, but ellipses are supposed to be "...", not " . 
>>> . . ".
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> Only extreme pedants nitpick the formatting of an ellipses, especially 
> with the advent of an ellipses *character* in modern typography. So 
> long as there are three dots innit, you're good.
>

     Actually, I looked it up a long time ago. BOTH variants are 
correct. Which you use just comes down to stylistic and personal 
preferences.

     There is a reason for using three periods without spacing on web 
pages, though. They tend not to be broken up by word-wrapping in 
different resolutions or window sizes that way, while the spaced ones do.


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