In our most recent "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks:
Sometimes when I quote a passage from another philosopher, I'd like to remove a paragraph break without removing any words. How does one indicate this? I feel like both using and not using an ellipsis would be misleading.
Hmm…whenever I block quote long passages, I always leave in a paragraph break. But in cases where I'm merely quoting within the regular body text, I guess I think separating the relevant passages sort of "[like]" I am "[doing here]" is the way to go (as putting in an ellipsis sort of suggests a continuity of passages to me that doesn't exist across passages in different paragraphs. But maybe I'm overthinking things.
What do readers think?
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