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Joel on How to get your resume read

 http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ResumeRead.html

While I was reading this line, in the above article

“OK, this one really bugs me. Learn where spaces go in relation to other punctuation. Attention, the entire population of India: whenever you have a comma, there is always exactly one space and it's always after the comma and never before it. Thank you. “

It got me thinking, I am from India, in school we were never taught about how many spaces are supposed to be there after or before a comma. The first time I came across that was when I was using MS Word and it put green lines under my text, since then I have been infact using one space after comma rule, if only to just get rid of the green lines J

Anyways does someone know if there is a rule somewhere about this?

 

Published Jan 26 2004, 03:55 PM by Sijin Joseph

Comments

 

Scott said:

http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/~tripp/punc.html

Here is what a quick Google of "space after punctuation" turned up for me. Ironically enough, it's a Japanese domain.

The reference book for English writing style and composition is the Strunk and White manual of style.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/020530902X/104-2278891-2544706?v=glance

That's interesting that you were never taught that rule. Perhaps we should send a crate load over to India for use in their colleges? :)
January 27, 2004 2:38 AM
 

Sijin Joseph said:

Great, Thanks. Btw i am sure they teach that in college, I was talking about in school. But anyways since English is not a native Indian language, although we are pretty good at it, I don't think the schools in India even teach such rules barring a few exceptions.
January 27, 2004 3:55 AM
 

Ricky Dhatt said:

The two space rule after sentence period is a relic from the typewriter-era. Only a single space is needed.

When googling for this type of thing use the phrase "style guide"
January 27, 2004 4:36 AM
 

SBC said:

http://weblogs.asp.net/sbchatterjee/archive/2004/01/28/63890.aspx
:-)
January 28, 2004 10:33 AM
 

Eric Newton said:

Just try getting two spaces after every period in HTML: surprise! whitespace is collected into a single char.
July 5, 2004 12:50 PM

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