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: What is the recommended way to make a four-dot ellipsis? For a three-dot ellipsis, it is recommended to use the ellipsis character, …, but I can't seem to find any four-dot ellipsis character,

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For a three-dot ellipsis, it is recommended to use the ellipsis character, …, but I can't seem to find any four-dot ellipsis character, for example as recommended by the MLA style guide for when more than one sentence is omitted. What is recommended to look consistent with the three-dot ellipsis characters in my document?

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@Marchetta832

I think the recommendation isn't to have a 4-dot ellipse but rather to have a period and an ellipsis.


Hello, world.…That is what the man said.


That is semantically correct (the sentence ends, then text is omitted and replaced with the ellipsis.

I would try that in whatever font I was using first and see if it looks ok. If the appearance of the period + ellipsis had strange spacing, I would remove it and type 4 periods instead, and then manually kern them so that the spacing between dots matched an actual ellipsis in that font.

Related question: Why is an ellipsis represented by one single character rather than a sequence of kerned dots?

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