There should not be
whitespace before an ellipsis in English text.
I must beg to differ. Virtually every book I've seen has space before
(most) ellipses.
Aside from typographical matters, ellipses seem to most often be used to
stand for a word rather than as "trailing" punctuation. Here are a few
random samples from the Texinfo manual:
Permission is granted to @dots{}
...
one (not Info, not @TeX{}, @dots{}).
...
@item @@iftex @dots{} @@end iftex
...
than `It is recommended that @dots{}''.
It seems wrong to me to omit such spaces.
There are over 130 occurrences of spaces before @dots in the Texinfo
manuals (I didn't search others). At a glance, the spaces seem
desirable and even necessary to me. I think a blanket warning would be
a bad mistake, and I don't see any way to distinguish the problematic
cases.
Certainly there are times when no space should be there; so then the
author should leave out the space in the input. Or no line break; then
the author should use a tie.
karl
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