Re: [Groff] groff_ms.man

[Rick Richardson]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 09:43:16AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> After some thinking, I wonder whether think the following is the right
> one:
> 
>   .char \[...] .\|.\|.
> 
> Note that there is no `\&' at the end.  Similar to a sentence stop,
> the user has to decide whether the ellipsis is ending a sentence or
> not.  So the relevant grammatical question is whether an ellipsis
> really ends a sentence -- I've already seen a solution which uses
> four dots instead of three to mark that.
> 
> Please comment.  Is there any reference for that?

This seems relevent:

http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/grammar/course/punctuation/3_5.htm

Query Google "ellipsis at the end of a sentence" for more references.

-Rick

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