Spaces for Ellipses [duplicate]

Solution 1:

You may be governed in your typing by what is most convenient; it's largely irrelevant, because the final decision rests with your publisher. Academic publishers will impose the standards defined in the style manual adopted by your discipline, other publishers will have their own house standards.

And unless you are deliberately employing a non-standard typography because it has some non-standard significance, why should you care? Let the publisher worry about it, that's why he gets the big bucks.

Solution 2:

The best way to get around the dot-dot-dot vs. dot-space-dot-space-dot dilemma is just to use the proper unicode ellipsis character: …. Notice that if you copy and paste that into a textbox and try to delete just one dot, it will delete the whole ellipsis and not just one dot (because it's a single character). If you don't know how to type it on your OS of choice, check out this link; also, to type it on iOS, press and hold down the peroid key.