The "standard" is going to depend upon what style manual you use. AFAIK, the Chicago Manual of Style, for example, still requires periods after abbreviations, but not with initialisms or acronyms (e.g. PDF files), or with pluralizations of abbreviations.
I suspect if we actually checked all the style manuals and with various publishers or editors, we'd find the majority continue to expect to see periods. Connie Scott Hall <seh0...@gmail.com> wrote: >To the original point, has the standard actually changed such that periods are >no longer appropriate, or is this just a texting shortcut that should be >ignored in Legacy (and elsewhere)? I do notice this on websites such as >Ancestry and services like HeritageQuest, neither of which apply a period >after a middle inital. I hadn't much thought about it until now. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
