From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Jan 20 2006 - 10:04:16 CST
At 07:56 -0800 2006-01-20, Doug Ewell wrote:
>Absolutely correct. It was always explained to me that the elision
>was before the sentence-ending full stop, and that seems usually to
>be true in my writing. I suppose it could be argued that both
>constructions exist.
You can trail off and stop...(.) or you could be finishing a
sentence and then skipping some other sentences in a passage you are
citing(.)...
-- Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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