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Subject:Re: Ellipses From:Karen Kay <karenk -at- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 5 Aug 1994 07:25:24 -0700
D. Citron said:
> Yes, you could do it either way, though I think a vertical ellipsis is
> more appropriate here. You may have to just use periods. I know that in
> BookMaster, the &vellip. tag will create one. I don't know of any other
> program that has such a tag -- I just use the periods.
Someone wrote to tell me how to do it in WordPerfect and Interleaf. I
figured it out in Word. There's probably a way in FrameMaker. So I
think other programs have vertical ellipses, you just have to find out
how to do it for your particular package.
