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From: Horne-Scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: em-dashes
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Date: 11 Jul 89 17:29:26 GMT
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In-reply-to: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)

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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