Re: [Groff] groff_ms.man

[P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernd Warken" <address@hidden>
To: "Stewart C. Russell" <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Groff] groff_ms.man


> On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 03:08:31PM +0000, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> > Bernd Warken wrote:
> > >
> > > The Gutenberg Project requires 4 dots for an ellipsis at the end of a
> > > sentence.
> >
> > but isn't that just ASCII for ellipsis + fullstop?
> >
> I'm about to write a macro package for Gutenberg.  I will use three dots
> for the ellipsis char and terminate a sentence with a fullstop after the
> ellipsis as usual.  That's the easiest way to define the whole thing.
>
> That's it \[ell].
>

Hmm... In so far as the original author has used that same punctuatino
style. E.g., typesetting Kipling, or Twain, or Cervantes, or Goethe's works
with such style would be a terrible mistake.

If the author is dead long enough to have his works included in Gutenberg,
you can be sure that professional editors worked with the author to decide
how punctiation should be, and all editions after the fact have changed
font, layout, paper, whatever, but not the punctuation, a part of the
author´s artistic creation.