Don't these rules boil down to proper names vs regular nouns?

Proper Names get init caps
regular nouns don't (unless beginning a sentence)

Jerry Johnson
Web Developer


On 5/5/05, S. Isaac Dealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've avoided making this sort of distinction in my own documentation,
> largely because of the extra work involved... I do tend to capitalize
> certain vocabulary words -- particularly if they refer to a specific
> "tool" in an application, i.e. "Plugin Manager" rather than "plugin
> manager" or more to the point "Available Inventory". I.e. "these units
> will be displayed in Available Inventory" instead of "these units will
> be displayed in available inventory.". I'm probably not very good
> about this because I probably vassilate back and forth on this issue a
> lot due to being generally partial to an all-lowercase style...
> sort-of e. e. cummings-esque. :)

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