Re: Origin of Ellipsis (was: RE: Empty set)

From: Andre Schappo <A.Schappo_at_lboro.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 14:24:27 +0000

On 13 Sep 2013, at 20:02, Whistler, Ken wrote:

The *interesting* question, in my opinion, is why folks feel impelled to use
U+2026 to render a baseline ellipsis in Latin typography at all, rather than
just using U+002E ad libitum...

--Ken

U+2026 is useful for microblogs when one is looking to save characters

André
Received on Sun Sep 15 2013 - 09:27:50 CDT

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