Re: Four dotted ellipsis

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From: Mike Mepham
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 12:27

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My understanding of punctuation is that an ellipsis can only be three dots. Of course it could follow a full point, but general practice is to put a space after the full point, followed by the ellipsis. Like Dave I've been wrong as well, but that's the way I've done it for the past 35 years or so.

Mike

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