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Subject:Units of Measurement From:jamie -at- ptsgi -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 26 May 2004 19:50:06 -0600
I was wondering what the accepted practice of spacing with units of
meaasurement is. I've always gone with no space after single letter
abbreviations (for example 3V, 2A) and one space after the numeral with
abbreviations of two letters or more (3 MB, 7 mA). I go this notion from
Sun's "A Style Guide for the Computer Industry".
Is this considered the norm? Does anyone know why this is the convention?
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