Am 2009-07-07 um 17:28 schrieb Maurí cio:

What is the proper way in english printing to show that some text has been removed from a quote? In (brazilian) Portuguese, we use [...], for instance:

Depois de mencionadas outras questões, comentou-se o ocorrido.

can quoted as

[...] comentou-se o ocorrido.

Is there a name for that?

It's called ellipsis (or ellipse) and typeset the same in German. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)