QUERY: spelling, e.g. or eg

[Brian Hooper <hooperbc -at- mindspring -dot- com>]

Lately, in tech documentation, I've been seeing "for example"
abbreviated as "eg" and not "e.g.". Is this a new accepted spelling for
it?

Forgive me if the question is more for the copyediting list. But since
I've been seeing this term in so many tech docs, I thought maybe tech
departments may now have begun deferring to a different preferred
abbreviation for "for example."

Thank you.

Brian

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