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Article #12626Re: Hyphens, Ens or Ems?
From: pleader
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 16:06
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 16:06
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I think it's a question of "look", with the critical factor being the character width. I've found that many fonts have their ellipses using a set width, even though the character width within the font family may vary to a great degree (e.g. Condensed versus Expanded). Regards, Victor Lee.
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