[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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