Talk:Library Card
Revision as of 10:15, 20 December 2007 by Propellerkuh (talk | contribs)
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.
- 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.
- Or lets try the " … " and wait for feedback: How does the Ellipsis in this sentence look for you?
- If a word is complete followed by the Ellipsis, there should be a blank (space) after the word: Word ..., not: Word...,
- If a word fades out, there is no blank: "Ass... for Asshole."
- If a word fades in, there is no blank: "...hole for Asshole."
- If the Ellipsis is followed by a exclamation sign, question mark, colon, semicolon, brackets or something similar, there is no blank: "fading ...; not: fading ... ;"
- 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)