> Ellipses: > It has been a while since I needed this information, so I went to > "google" to refresh my memory. I do not recall such disagreement on > the proper spacing of the elliptical dots, but that is probably > because I just followed the style manual selected by my university. > > <snip> > > Virginia Beck The material I'm working with was first published between 1803 and 1898; paraphrased and republished in 1937. The ellipses I'm finding are all over the market; there's . ... . .. . ... .... ,... , ... . . . .. . and . . . . [ Again, Mod entered the leading space on the line above. Starting a line with a period is A Bad Idea for technical reasons. - Mod ] Given the content, I feel I need to streamline it to lower the Fog-Factor, but after 6 months gave up on the content. It's tough proofing a document that has so many separate but marginally distinct styles. You're right -- every style manual I looked at had a different suggestion. I'm about to fall back on a 1967 GPO Style Manual, if only so I can state a specific one that darn few folks will be able to find. (g) Cheryl singhals <[email protected]>