[Framers] How do you guys abbreviate foot pounds and Newton meters when writing about torque settings?

Even though the specification we used specifies N.m, no-one would recognise this, so we used Nm. ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Arch

Re: [Framers] How do you guys abbreviate foot pounds and Newton meters when writing about torque settings?

Agreed. I always defer to the published standards for the industry I'm writing for. In my case, that would be the International System of Units, ASTM, and IEEE. See http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/ and https://www.astm.org/FormStyle_for_ASTM_STDS.html in addition to the link provided by Rober

Re: [Framers] How do you guys abbreviate foot pounds and Newton meters when writing about torque settings?

Correction it should be ft-lb not ft-lbs Ian -Original Message- From: Framers [mailto:framers-bounces+ian.proudfoot=itp-x.co...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Ian Proudfoot Sent: 01 June 2017 15:40 To: 'An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software.' ; lone-tech-writ...@goo

Re: [Framers] How do you guys abbreviate foot pounds and Newton meters when writing about torque settings?

Hi Art, I've always used ft-lbs and Nm. Regards Ian -Original Message- From: Framers [mailto:framers-bounces+ian.proudfoot=itp-x.co...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Art Campbell Sent: 01 June 2017 15:24 To: Framers List ; lone-tech-writ...@googlegroups.com; writers--techies-on-framem

Re: [Framers] How do you guys abbreviate foot pounds and Newton meters when writing about torque settings?

ft•lb N•m -- Ken in Atlanta On Thursday, June 1, 2017 10:24 AM, Art Campbell wrote: Or write them out? TIA, Art Art Campbell           art.campb...@gmail.com   "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson          

Re: [Framers] [Loners] How do you guys abbreviate foot pounds and Newton meters when writing about torque settings?

ft-lb and N·m -Lise On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 9:23 AM, Art Campbell wrote: > Or write them out? > > TIA, > Art > > Art Campbell > art.campb...@gmail.com > "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent > and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson >

Re: [Framers] How do you guys abbreviate foot pounds and Newton meters when writing about torque settings?

Here's one standard: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/ias/pub-dept/abbreviation.pdf ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at ht

[Framers] How do you guys abbreviate foot pounds and Newton meters when writing about torque settings?

Or write them out? TIA, Art Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply.

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