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Originally Posted by FrustratedReader
The … ellipses character is preferred to using separate dots as per ..., no matter if spaced or not.
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My last memory was that, at least for the fonts I was using, the ellipsis character gave a totally inconsistent and ugly spacing and look, that's why I tend to avoid it. By the way, in Spanish the correct way is just three dots, no special character, no added spaces.
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Punctuation in dialogue goes inside quotes “Are you going?”
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Yes, but I was talking about "quotes that aren't part of dialogue". Anyway, that example is a case where the question mark obviously (to me) goes inside the quotes, but this:
"I'm going home," said he.
is a case where you can say that dialogue punctuation goes inside quotes, although it logically (to me, again) doesn't belong there (he didn't "say" the comma: if anything, he said a full stop).
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If dialogue has a paragraph break it can be still indented, but end of last paragraph has no ” (closing quote), though the fresh paragraph of same dialogue has.
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I don't understand this... I thought the pattern was:
“First paragraph.
“Second paragraph.
“Last paragraph.”