From: Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Proper way to point removed text?
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 21:50:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EC6ABDA5-8B88-4D55-9545-6646C21D87AE@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h2vpiv$i04$1@ger.gmane.org>
Am 2009-07-07 um 17:28 schrieb Maurí cio:
> What is the proper way in english printing to show
> that some text has been removed from a quote? In
> (brazilian) Portuguese, we use [...], for instance:
>
> Depois de mencionadas outras questões, comentou-se
> o ocorrido.
>
> can quoted as
>
> [...] comentou-se o ocorrido.
>
>
> Is there a name for that?
It's called ellipsis (or ellipse) and typeset the same in German.
Greetlings from Lake Constance!
Hraban
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