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Points of ellipses

Points of ellipsis indicate the absent of words. The ellipsis character in most fonts isn't large enough to the job. James Felici in the Complete Manual of Typography recommends using a a breaking word space for the first and ending space and non-breaking for the middle spaces. I use thin spaces, which give a narrower ellipses that still has enough heft to show something large is missing.

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Making your own ellipses

I think you should add that if you create your own ellipses with periods, you should put non-breaking spaces rather than standard spaces between each period, so that the ellipsis never ends up being broken across lines.

Chris Benge

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