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Originally Posted by Hitch
No errata in Book 5, chapter one in toto. Will report on Book 6 later. One possible typo in Book One, first chapter, First Scholastic Trade PPBK, 1999, page 10, line 10, which reads, from left margin:
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Do you use calibre and, if so, does it set all ellipses to three points? If so, then it's possible that four-point ellipses were used before the word
Well and calibre (or one of your plugins) "fixed" them by rendering them incorrect.
As I'm sure you know, three points are used after an incomplete sentence (or within a sentence that continues); four, after a complete sentence. When a writer uses sentence fragments consistently and deliberately, the status of a clause can become ambiguous even when it isn't independent (implied omissions, etc.).