Article and period use in a tabular catalog, case 1

[cmyguo3o]

Hi all!

Say, I have a furniture catalog structured like this example table:

Part No. | Name | Description
000001 | FOO BAR | Wooden chair. Suitable for medium intensity bar fights. Anti-skid pads attached

1) Is it correct/allowed to omit the indefinite article before "wooden chair"?
2) Is it correct/allowed to omit the period after "attached"?

 

[Copyright]

All good once you put a period at the end. You don't use periods within a paragraph and then leave off the end one.

"Medium-intensity" is better hyphenated (it's this sort of unasked-for advice that usually starts bar fights).

 

[cmyguo3o]

Thank you Copyright. The part about the period is due to the fact that I often see it omitted at the very end of a table cell, so I thought it may be some sort of a rule.

 

[entangledbank]

For a listing like this (or a label or a table heading), 'Wooden chair' is better without the fiddly little grammatical words. And yes, I agree the final words look a bit lost without a full stop of their own. You wouldn't need it if the entire entry was just 'Wooden chair', but once you've started using it, keep going.