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Originally Posted by GrannyGrump
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That was the thread I was thinking about, thanks!
Jellby's posts were the ones that initially taught me all the ellipsis edge cases, and I still refer to them so many years later.
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Originally Posted by GrannyGrump
Granted, I am pretty much only working with vintage books, and the modern glyph often just does not look right there.
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Older books also used 5+-periods (or asterisks) for showing "larger chunks of text missing". Trying to use the ellipsis character in non-multiples-of-3 looked VERY odd indeed.
There's also the edge cases of ellipses and other punctuation:
,...
...!
...?
?...
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Originally Posted by elibrarian
Not to mention that screenreaders probably won't recognize dot-space-dot-space-dot or whatever as an ellipsis …
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In my tests with:
- TTS (Android, Google Text-to-Speech)
- Built-in Windows Speech
it just takes a few pauses as it parses each period.
Code:
Example 4-dot ellipsis. . . . And this is a second sentence.
Example 4-dot ellipsis.… And this is a second sentence.
Example 4-dot ellipsis…. And this is a second sentence.
TTS Speaking:
Code:
Example 4-dot ellipsis.
(Pause)
(Pause)
(Pause)
And this is a second sentence.
I just tested the above sentences in Windows, and all sounded identical.
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Originally Posted by jackie_w
I agree. I listen to books using text-to-speech quite often. Early in my ebook experience I realised that 'dot dot dot' was all too often read aloud as 'dot dot dot'.
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Hmmm, interesting. Which TTS were you using?