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Originally Posted by pholy
The mention of spaces between the periods is interesting, especially considering that there is a Unicode character & hellip; or & #8239; which has all three dots with only thin spaces between them. The sentence ending full stop could of course come on either side of the ellipsis.
BTW, I think I recall seeing a vertical ellipsis character, but I don't know how it might be used and I'm too lazy to look it up. Pretty sure it's in The Unicode Book.
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That semi-closed spacing in the Unicode character is part of the reason that many of us like to use true spaces for all four points: So that the added period which closes the sentence (and other such punctuation marks) won't be followed by an uneven space. The goal is consistency.
BTW I did look up the vertical ellipsis character. Thanks for pointing it out.