Talk:Library Card

Hi y'all.
Being a teacher dealing with Editorial Design at a kind of Applied Arts School in Vienna Austria (die Graphische Bundes- Lehr, und Versuchsanstalt) I feel obliged to proclaim some rules for the use of the Ellipsis (...), hoping very badly that they are valid for other languages and above all English too.

1. On the Apple keyboard and within certain desktop applications and font design software there is a correct letter for the Ellipsis (Alt-.) As we cannot be certain if all browsers, platforms or font formats display this letter correctly, the best alternative is three dots.
2. Or lets try the " … " and wait for feedback: How does the Ellipsis in this sentence look for you?
3. If a word is complete followed by the Ellipsis, there should be a blank (space) after the word: Word ..., not: Word...,
4. If a word fades out, there is no blank: "Ass... for Asshole."
5. If a word fades in, there is no blank: "...hole for Asshole."
6. If the Ellipsis is followed by a exclamation sign, question mark, colon, semicolon, brackets or something similar, there is no blank: "fading ...; not: fading ... ;"
7. There is no period after the Ellipsis if the sentence ends ... (not: ends ....)

It would be fine and more professional from the word-processional side if we could follow these rules in the future.

There are some rules for hyphens, dashes etcetera. Maybe we could go there too?

I hope I don't sound like a typical teacher to you. Don't get me wrong, I can live perfectly with the articles as they are ... just thought you might want to know.

Propellerkuh 08:49, 20 December 2007 (PST)

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Hm, I'm not completely sure if I'm using it correctly. I was only doing it as I am used to at the university (which includes transscriptions of oral documents).

That being said, I was absolutely unfamiliar with the rules you posted. But the way I see it, the only mistake I (repeatedly!) made in this article is what you stated in (3), i.e. not putting a blank after a word followed by an ellipsis. Is that correct? I've looked it up in the English Wikipedia (wiki:Ellipsis), and the rules given there are slightly different from what you wrote under (3).

I'm also used to making a distinction between "..." and "(...)". I use the former if the speaker makes a pause or fades out (indicating: there is nothing here), and the latter if I willingly omit something or did not understand something (indicating: there is something here).

I've also noticed some inconsistent use of the ellipsis in this wiki, mostly with regards to spacing within the ellipsis ("..." vs. ". . ."). Any idea about that?

--Fishbrain 11:32, 20 December 2007 (PST)

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