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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab
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To: E who wrote (1453)8/24/1998 12:08:00 AM
From: Yamakita  Read Replies (1) of 4711
 
"How is it that I've never come across this rule before?"

Can't answer that one for ya E.

"And the spaces between them are very nice, but is that also a rule?"

See Chicago, 13th edition, 10.36. Like just about everything connected to grammar, "rules" are really agreed upon conventions, and hence not really rules in the strictest sense of the term. Spaces between dots are easier on the eyes, and are thus preferred, sez this maven. "Rules" tend to be pretty fluid.

If you want to be in agreement with the consensus of the mavens of the MLA and Chicago, use four when you want to indicate the omission of the end of a sentence. The first dot is the period. See Chicago 10.42 and 10.43. Four should also be used to indicated the omission of the first part of the next sentence.

I am officially giving myself a promotion:

Yamakita, grammar czar
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