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Originally Posted by lumpynose
Thanks, will do!
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I feel that as this is the Workshop and we're discussing eBooks in general that I should mention that the Kindles can bastardize the manually-created ellipses, using either dot-space-dot-space-dot or the dot-thinspace-dot-thinspace-dot method.
On a Kindle, because they're justified, EITHER of those can be stretched, a la Rivers of White. I've seen it, more than once. We have clients that INSIST that we make their ellipses manually (which is, arguably, typographically correct, mind you) rather than using the ellipsis character, but I always warn them about what happens with justification and rivers. They'll also do it with nbsps used to create custom bullet characters with hanging indents, etc.
It's a real issue for those of us doing this commercially. It's not simply a matter of preference; once you've seen a manually-created dot-space-dot-space-dot stretched out, OR broken across lines, which happens ALL the time, the ellipsis character starts to look pretty good.
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(Don't get me started on the people who apparently have zero idea
how many periods are used in an ellipsis. I would be rich if I had a buck for every wrong ellipsis we've corrected...)
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