Abbreviations-periods or no periods? 11

[anali87]

I found a very old thread here on the same topic, but would like to know if anything changed in the last few years.
The company I work for is developing their Drafting Standards and most likely is going to end up forcing everybody to use abbreviations with periods (T.O.S., O.C., W.P., etc.).
I didn't use periods in abbreviations for the past 10 years or so, and the drawings look so outdated (IMHO) with periods everywhere.
ASME Y14.38-2007 Abbreviations and Acronyms for Use on Drawings and Related Documents simply has this:
"Punctuation
An abbreviation spelling a whole word should include a period if the abbreviation could be misinterpreted."
Then they just list 100 or so pages of all sorts of abbreviations without periods or spaces.

 

[dcarr82775]

I be an engineer for a reason. I often just throw in a comma when it feels like one should be in there somewhere.

 

[jayrod12]

Everytime you need to take a breath, add a comma.

That's how I was taught, although I don't believe they anticipated how many commas would be in a smoker's sentence compared to a non-smoker.

 

[msquared48]

Denial:

Oh... but I am trying sooooo hard to restrain myself...

Mike McCann, PE, SE (WA)