how many spaces are given after period, comma, colon , semicolon, paragraph?

The rule for typists used to be two spaces after a period, question mark or exclamation mark and a single space after everything else. This was primarily because, when typewriters used a mono-spaced typeface, it made the text more readable by separating the sentences more. Currently, however, since all text is now variable spaced, the usual rules require one space after all true punctuation marks. Exceptions apply to periods which are included in a string of initials and in the abbreviations "e.g.", "i.e." &c., otherwise to marks which are not true punctuation: hyphen (-): requires NO space after it when used to connected two words as a hyphenated word. dash ( - ): same character as the hyphen but requires a space either side. lacuna ( ... ): indicates an excluded part in quoted text. Should begin with a space and end with a space and have no space between the three periods. apostrophe ('): indicates either colloquial speech or the possesive case. No space before and none after, when followed by another letter, e.g. "don't" and "the dog's bowl" Note that when the possessive ends in an 's', the apostrophe follows the 's' and is then followed by a space, e.g. "The students' demands", "Mr Jarvis' statement" It is usual to separate paragraphs with white space - one blank line only. Quotation marks (so-called 'double-quotes' and 'single-quotes') and parentheses, brackets and braces are always preceded by a space at the start of the enclosure and followed by a space at the end. If punctuation is included within the two marks and comes at the end of the quotation or bracketed text, it should NOT be followed by a space before the final quotation mark or bracket.

Well, I tend to type one single space after any comma, semicolon, period, and colon. Before computers came into being, typers had to manually space their sentences so that they were equally spaced. Computers do that for us now, so there's no need to manually space every sentence. So, on computers, type one space, but on typewriters, type twice.

I'm not an expert, but as I understand it, this, the full stop or period. Single space follows, no more. The same applies to a comma, colon: and semicolon; as to a paragraph: At the start of a piece of writing there should be no space. However, that only applies to the very start of a new paragraph. After this, there should be single spaces, as demonstrated below. You see; each time you begin a new section within a paragraph, it should be preceded by a single space. I hope I've helped a little; as I say, although I'm a writer, grammar has never been my strongest point, and I had to learn on the job as it were. But I'm getting better! A good way of working out how the experts write is to read their work, and see what they do with regard to spaces; paragraphs; lengths of paragraphs and chapters and so on. Good luck!

Things may be different here in the U. S. but what I learned was the following. Use one space after a comma and a semicolon and after a period that is on an abbreviation in the interior of a sentence. Use two spaces after a period at the end of a sentence and always after a colon. However, things have become fairly lax with the colon but in official writing, it probably should be done still. Now, whether those rules apply in India, I don't know.

I don't think there is any rule whatsoever, it just has been always one space after comma, period and word..even Microsoft word treats it as an error- if you make it 2 spaces.

When I took keyboarding in high school, we were taught to put two spaces after a period, exclamation point, or question mark. Commas, colons, and semicolons are followed by one space. A space isn't necessary after the last punctuation mark in a paragraph because you are meant to press Enter and move to the next line, and use Tab to indent the first line of the next paragraph. However, one thing I've learned from working on websites is that most of the time a second space will not show up. You need to use a special code to create a non-breaking space if you want multiple spaces to show up on the web. Your client might be having problems with formatting the articles. Even if two spaces is the right way to do it, I'd stick with doing whatever your client asks you to do. They're the ones who're paying you for your work, so keep them as happy as possible and they'll keep coming back to you.

One space is the norm as said above, but I like to see more 'white space' as you are doing. It makes a piece so much easier to read. Certainly if I hand write a letter (yes, it is still polite to reply to an invitation with a hand written note! haha) I tend to leave a much larger space after puntuation marks than one letter's worth. I think your client is being a bit picky but then, 'He that pays the piper calls the tune' as the saying goes.

The standard practice is really using a single space after any punctuation mark, whether it be an article or a casual letter or even just a two-sentence note :)