title with multiple periods in it?

[JP Craig]

I'm trying to cite an e-mail entitled "Left Forum. . . This weekend. . . ." My output needs to look like:

Nudel, Harry. “Left Forum. . . This weekend. . . .â€

[ozean]

that is a nutty title indeed! is it really three full stops in the first instance and four in the second? And the spaces in-between?

You know that there is the dedicated ellipsis character … which you can get by hitting option+. (or alt+. depending on the localization of your keyboard)?

[nicka]

The ellipsis character is the solution I have used for the same problem. Works perfectly for me.

[Jon]

Hm, I posted a long reply to this question a few hours ago, but must have failed to hit Submit. Bummer.

Anyway, the problem is that Bookends does some cleaning up after a citation is formatted, and two periods, separated by a space or not, are condensed to one.

The solution to ... is, as other users have helpfully pointed out, to use a real elllipsis, which on my US keyboard is Command-;

If you want a space in between the periods, use hard spaces, which Bookends will leave in (I think!). I forget the keyboard combo for a hard space, but perhaps someone else can help us there.

Jon
Sonny Software

[ozean]

I forget the keyboard combo for a hard space, but perhaps someone else can help us there.

Hm, this may again differ depending on your keyboard localization, but for me it is option+space (if that does not do it try shift+space or ctrl+space).

[JP Craig]

As in the subject, option-space did the trick. This is a posting on a mailing list for avant-garde poets, so they can get pretty nutty. One guy posts long rambling messages in one paragraph, like two pages in a paragraph, no punctuation, no mercy.

I'm writing a dissertation on these cats..... So the help is really appreciated. I've got to say I like Bookends far better than EndNote. It's so easy to go in and modify or add formats.

Again, thanks for help. JP