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Old 07-31-2010, 11:49 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by Jellby View Post
It's not unusual to have rows of four dots too, when an ellipsis (3 dots) is followed or preceded by a normal full stop. Whether or not this is correct, depends on the language and time the text was written. I'd rather use some other character or combination, such as "%%%", or "¬", or "@@@", which is much less likely to appear anywhere in the text, but in case of doubt, just search for what you intend to use before doing the actual replace to see if it's actually used or not.
"¬" is the symbol for logical negation. I use it as such in my documents!
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