Stupid syntax question.

[KeithD]

I saw you picking on orphans in your other post. Aren't you ashamed of yourself?

My understanding is that the new preferred style is not to put two spaces after colons or after a period.

I probably should stop pointing out industry standards, but here goes. This is NOT a new preferred style. One space (plus a little extra leading) after terminal punctuation has been the publishing standard from the beginning of printing and continued through the typewriter era. In fact, printing has always put a bit of extra leading after terminal punctuation. The two-space deal was only because the typewriter couldn't handle that and it came in and left during the typewriter era and was only for the typewriter. Computers can do it. When you do now what we only did because of the limitation of typewriters, you are actually putting more than two spaces after terminal punctuation.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I used to...do it like this. Then on another... site, they told me it was proper to add the space at the end or the beginning but not both.

So now... I put the space at the end...

...unless I'm beginning a new sentence with an ellipsis.

So, now the question is, how to you capitalize an ellipsis?

 

[KeithD]

You don't. And they told you wrong. There obviously is a lot of that going around. A lot of personal voting on what's not really up for a vote in the real world.

 

[Enchantment_of_Nyx]

I used to...do it like this. Then on another... site, they told me it was proper to add the space at the end or the beginning but not both.

So now... I put the space at the end...

...unless I'm beginning a new sentence with an ellipsis.

So, now the question is, how to you capitalize an ellipsis?

Well, duh! To capitalize the ellipsis, you have to press the key extra hard for the first period.

 

[Comentarista82]

I would just check this, which is a great site to play around at to expand your grammar and vocabulary.

They state whichever way you use (space before and after or no spaces), be consistent.