Long Hours of Design

September 9, 2008

Filed under: Rants — Tags: ellipses, punctuation marks — admin @ 8:11 am

I’m generally on my Mac, and if I’m on a PC, I rarely am doing anything serious or designerly. So I never knew this:

To add the ellipsis^{[ 1 ]} punctuation mark to text, hit Option-semicolon (Mac) or Alt-0133 (Windows).

Really? You have to type Alt-0133?^{[ 2 ]}

I’m glad I don’t have to remember that.

Ellipses are three “periods” which indicate a break in thought, a hesitation or omission in the text. ↩
I thought 0133 might be the Unicode number; it’s not. Though it is an HTML equivalent. ↩