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Article #292Re: em-dashes
From: Scott Horne
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1989 17:29
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1989 17:29
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In article <1188@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>, jwright@atanasoff (Jim Wright) writes:
>
> | They [em-dashes] are considered by Hart's to be on the same
> | semantic level as (parentheses) and ... ellipses.
>
> And how about a new can of worms? :-) Let's talk about ellipses. Is
> there only one way to set them? It seems they have two uses: to
> indicate an uncompleted thought or truncated quote, or to indicate the
> absence of text. In the first case, I leave no space between the ellipse
> and the text. I don't use the second case often, but apparently the
> ellipse ought to have space on both sides. Correct?
Yes, correct. For example, Jim Wright writes, ``Let's talk about ellipses....
Is there only one way to set them?... [T]hey have two uses: to indicate an
uncompleted thought ..., or to indicate the absence of text.'' Alas, alack....
--Scott
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!yale!Horne-Scott From: Horne-Scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: em-dashes Message-ID: <66098@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 11 Jul 89 17:29:26 GMT References: <65590@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <65736@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <28@nx32s.anduk.co.uk> <1188@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> Sender: root@yale.UUCP Reply-To: Horne-Scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 23 In-reply-to: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)