: Re: What is the preferred way to type out ellipses? I have seen ellipses written out both with ("Well . . . gosh . . .") and without spaces ("Well...gosh...") between the dots. I've also looked

There is a "consensus", but you shouldn't care about that. HedgeMage is right, care about content, you can replace the ellipses afterwards, if you need.

The difference is, that you normally write ellipses with three dots (...). But there is a special character for ellipses (…). So for every font there is this character, which makes the text easier/more pleasantly to read. But typesetting is not your job. It's much easier to use the three dots while writing instead of searching the special character.

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