Data Entry Checklist

1. Basic spacing rules are followed (see below)
2. Followed all instructions on the typist guidelines page
3. Added your name and affiliation (if any) in the end of the file ("Typeset by ...")
4. If in Malayalam, passed through Nandakumar's filter

Spacing

☛ Put a space after (not before) comma, colon, semicolon, and fullstop. No need to put a space after fullstop if it is followed by a quote or it is the end of the paragraph.

He said, " I like Bach,Beethoven , and Mozart. " So did I . But I liked Vivaldi as well.

He said,"I like Bach,Beethoven,and Mozart."So did I. But I liked Vivaldi as well.

☛ No space before or after a hyphen in words like privacy-infringing. But use space after a hyphen when it is used to indicate a list item in Markdown.

☛ സമസ്തപദങ്ങള്‍ മുറിച്ചെഴുതരുത് (അതുപോലെ ഇരട്ടിപ്പ് വേണ്ടിടത്ത് അത് ഒഴിവാക്കാനും പാടില്ല):

മര തണല്‍
മരതണല്‍
മരത്തണല്‍