how do you type ... ...?

[FinancialWar]

whilst in Japanese IME how to type "... ..." (ellipsis) when the full stop key is "。"?

 

[Mike Cash]

I change back to English.

 

[BrianLewis]

Caps lock worked for me, but I have a 109 keyboard setup.

 

[FinancialWar]

surely there is a way to type . in romaji input method. Maybe a native Japanese may know, because . in on kana input method.

 

[nekojita]

Just type 。。。then space bar.

 

[Angel Valis]

You could use "・・・", which is essentially an ellipsis just at mid-line height. For me it's the "/" key while using the IME.

 

[Toritoribe]

… ・・・

See the difference above. You can see that the left one is a symbol, not three symbols. Type さんてん and then hit space key, since this symbol is called 三点リーダ. (三点リーダ is usually displayed at mid-line height, as Angel Valis-san pointed out, but it's at the bottom-line now probaly due to the font this forum is using.) I usually type it by "・(/)" "・" "・" --> "space" on my 109 keyboard, though.

 

[Zellff8]

I just added it to my IME dictionary as さんてん. In my phone it works with 。。。+space

 

[FinancialWar]

… ・・・

See the difference above. You can see that the left one is a symbol, not three symbols. Type さんてん and then hit space key, since this symbol is called 三点リーダ. (三点リーダ is usually displayed at mid-line height, as Angel Valis-san pointed out, but it's at the bottom-line now probaly due to the font this forum is using.) I usually type it by "・(/)" "・" "・" --> "space" on my 109 keyboard, though.

さんてん indeed works, but isn't Japanese ellipsis six dots? ろくてん won't give ... ...

 

[Zellff8]

リーダー (記号) - Wikipedia

 

[Zlarp]

What you do is write things in Hiragana mode on your IME and then use the F6-F9 keys. Go " 。 。 。" and then I think F7 or F8 turn them into Roman letters (the other is Katakana or something, not sure) Just play around with them a bit, the F keys will save you a lot of pain of switching all the time. F5 also seems to be some sort of radical lookup feature, though I haven't done anything with that yet.

Edit: what the other people are saying about santen is obviously the correct thing to do, it seems. I'll leave this post here anyway because I think the F-key thing is a good tip.