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How about a key for those people who cannot finish a complete thought (particularly IM'ers) without trailing off every comment with three periods... gee... that would be really neat!
Maybe you could use your SysRq key for that purpose... (it's the one under the print screen key)...
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So remap it if you want, or lose the ellipsis habit. Programmable macros are available everywhere; no need for these "a key for this thing that gets typed a lot" ideas. |
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I was just looking at the keyboard again, and I thought to myself, does pressing the 'delete-home' key get me out of my mortgage? Or just summon a tornado? |
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Baked in Microsoft Word: Ctrl-Alt-. (period). In other programs on Windows: Alt-0133. |
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I know the point of Word's ctrl-alt-. is that a typgraphical ellipsis looks different than three periods in a row, but I can't help loving the fact that the short cut takes as many keystrokes as the old way. :) |
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Well, the AutoCorrect function will insert it for you if you type three periods, so you can even type EXACTLY the same three keys and get the same effect. |
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Nope: I find ellipses are annoyingly over-used, not least by myself, so I vote against making them easier to produce. |
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For one thing, ellipses are often incorrectly used as either sentence separators or as a mechanism for merging run-on sentences. Ugh: exhausting to read. |
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And for another, and again applying particularly to my own writing, I don't much like the way they make the writer appear hesitant, indecisive, or unsure of his stance. (Unless of course that's the impression the writer wants to give: but how often is that the case?) |
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Finally, it rather skews the original meaning of ellipsis, which is to indicate the omission of quoted material. |
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I could be wrong, but an eplises is . . . not ... otherwise its just three periods which mean nothing. |
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[notme], if you're going to be ridiculously pedantic about typography, you should spell the bloody word right. |
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Heh, I'm not normally the pedantic type, excecpt with people who are pedantic with me. I just had a professor (from germany. . .) who would demand the spaces. I had to use the chance to correct someone else on it. |
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Baked in Macintosh: option-Z |
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I found an html entity for the ellipsis! I thought there must be one. So, in fact, it isn't . . . or ... it's … (…). |
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Edit:
That obviously didn't work. Does this site eat html entities? Is there any way to add one to an annotation? |
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Ed said: “Baked in Macintosh: option-Z” |
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[Ed] Isn't this alt-: ? … |
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