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Subject:ellipses From:"Segal, Betty S." <bss3 -at- PHPMTS1 -dot- EM -dot- CDC -dot- GOV> Date:Sun, 7 Aug 1994 15:16:00 EST
Karen Kay wrote:
". . . . how do you show vertical ellipses? . . ."
All those who replied to this query seemed to know what vertical
ellipses are. Am I the only list member who was confused by this term? I know
only three ways to show that something has been omitted from text:
(1) . . . to show that part of a sentence has been omitted.
(2) . . . . to show that one or more sentences or paragraphs have been
omitted.
(3)* * * [centered between paragraphs] to show the omission of one or more
paragraphs.
The last usage is not common.
