Grammarian chomijidutifully checked Chicago (13th ed.) and came up with the following:
5.12 Faltering Speech
...
"But . . . but . . . ," said Tom.
Notice that in the last example a comma is used after the closing series of dots to separate the speech from the words identifying the speaker. For ... .
AND
10.36 Ellipses Any omission of a word or phrase, line or paragraph, from within a quoted passage must be indicated by ellipsis points (dots) ... They are usually separated from each other and from the text and any contiguous punctuation by 3-to-em spaces ... .
Going by all this, though, I think it's time we took a second and perhaps even more in-depth look at the ellipsis and how other punctuation is used with it.
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5.12 Faltering Speech
...
"But . . . but . . . ," said Tom.
Notice that in the last example a comma is used after the closing series of dots to separate the speech from the words identifying the speaker. For ... .
AND
10.36 Ellipses
Any omission of a word or phrase, line or paragraph, from within a quoted passage must be indicated by ellipsis points (dots) ... They are usually separated from each other and from the text and any contiguous punctuation by 3-to-em spaces ... .
Going by all this, though, I think it's time we took a second and perhaps even more in-depth look at the ellipsis and how other punctuation is used with it.