Follow-up Comment #1, bug #63632 (project groff): [comment #0 original submission:] > See a manual of style about the difference between "abc..." and > "abc ...".
Maybe you could give a specific style manual reference, and say what that manual says about this difference? As a counterexample, the Chicago Manual of Style, a widely used US style manual, makes no such distinction. It _does_ distinguish between an ellipsis followed by a period, and a period followed by an ellipsis (see section 13.53 in the latest (17th) edition), which does affect the spacing with the preceding word, but both of these constructions necessarily involve _four_ dots, and therefore apply to none of the 28 instances you've cited throughout this bug report. (The online CMoS is behind a paywall so I can't give a URL to the above citation.) Adding Peter to cc, since this item and one other affect a -mom file, and he can decide whether/how he wants to change it. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?63632> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/