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I don't know what to call it- maybe the "illumination dot"? No matter. It's a handy little piece of punctuation/coding. •

David Mack's art on "Daredevil"

When the text is aligned to the left, it works very nicely in the way I originally intended.

But I don't use left alignment normally; I think justified text looks much neater. And with justified text, it doesn't work so well. •

I can't get a lock, sir!

As soon as the rest of the line disappears, the text shifts out of place. You see the problem. What to do, what to do.

The temporary solution •.......•

Arrrgggh! This isn't working! I need a solution quick, before anyone tries to read this!"

which I came up with in writing the post "I'm not.", was to have two dots, with seven periods in the middle. It works, but I hate it.

Obviously, the ideal illumination dot would keep the margins exactly as they are before and after the dot, but just put a line in between. I have no idea how to do this, and I strongly suspect it's not even possible. How about the forum method of fake blanks?. •-------

Blah blah blah, blah bla- Blah! Blah; blah blah? Blah blah.

Yeah, this works. Just so long as no one selects it, that is. It'll be a pain to enter every time I want to use the dot, but I'll manage.