I was a typesetter for several years, and so the lingo has stuck with me. So while most of these have multiple answers I'd consider correct, I still instinctively use the terms that were used in our typesetting shop.
While we would, in fact, typeset "....", it would not simply be called an "ellipsis," because it is actually a period followed by an ellipsis. Since an ellipsis is most often used to indicate that text has been elided, it can obviously follow a period, if that is where text has been removed. However, when typesetting this, we always set a full wordspace after the period, and then a considerably smaller space between each dot of the ellipsis, to make the punctuational relationship clear. :-)
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Date: 2005-02-24 05:13 pm (UTC)While we would, in fact, typeset "....", it would not simply be called an "ellipsis," because it is actually a period followed by an ellipsis. Since an ellipsis is most often used to indicate that text has been elided, it can obviously follow a period, if that is where text has been removed. However, when typesetting this, we always set a full wordspace after the period, and then a considerably smaller space between each dot of the ellipsis, to make the punctuational relationship clear. :-)