Re: [Groff] groff_ms.man

[P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stewart C. Russell" <address@hidden>
To: "Bernd Warken" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Groff] groff_ms.man


> Bernd Warken wrote:
> >
> > The Gutenberg Project requires 4 dots for an ellipsis at the end of a
> > sentence.
>
> but isn't that just ASCII for ellipsis + fullstop?
>
> Consult your favourite style guide. None of them are correct, none of
> them are wrong.

Correct. And depending on the typgrapher and the national typographic style
(yes, there is such thing as a chinese can't typeset Japanese correctly
because he doesn't know squat) you use a (brit)full stop/(gringo) period.
And there can be or not a space between the ellipsis and the other period
glyph. And the space can be a full space, or an n-space, or a half-quad...
Do you follow?