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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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