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?

 

3 Comments

  • 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.

  • 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"

  • Just try getting two spaces after every period in HTML: surprise! whitespace is collected into a single char.

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