Re: [svnbook] r4244 committed - We only need three dots there....

[Richard Cavell <ri...@mail.com>]

##English on irc.freenode.net is telling me it's 3. Wikipedia seems to allow both ways.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis 

 A simple Google search seems to have advocates for both ways. I'm happy to see my change reverted. Does anyone else have any input?

 Richard
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From: C. Michael Pilato
Sent: 01/08/12 09:45 PM
To: svnbook@googlecode.com, svnbook-dev@red-bean.com
Subject: Re: [svnbook] r4244 committed - We only need three dots there....

Hrm. Maybe it's just been too many years since I tried to obey a style guide but I was pretty sure that an ellipsis at the end of a sentence with no sentence following required four dots. Ancient memories though, I'll admit.
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svnbook@googlecode.com wrote:  Revision: 4244 Author: richardcavell@mail.com Date: Sun Jan 8 00:40:24 2012 Log: We only need three dots there. "...." -> "..." http://code.google.com/p/svnbook/source/detail?r=4244  Modified: /trunk/en/book/ch03-advanced-topics.xml 
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 --- /trunk/en/book/ch03-advanced-topics.xml Mon Dec 19 06:53:39 2011 +++ /trunk/en/book/ch03-advanced-topics.xml Sun Jan 8 00:40:24 2012 @@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ streets analogy, if we are told to go to 606 N. Main Street in Wheaton,<footnote><para>606 N. Main Street, Wheaton, Illinois, is the home of the Wheaton <emphasis>History</emphasis> Center. - It seemed appropriate&hellip;.</para></footnote> we can think + It seemed appropriate&hellip;</para></footnote> we can think of <quote>Main Street</quote> as our path and <quote>Wheaton</quote> as our peg revision. These two pieces of information identify a unique path that can be traveled (north or 
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