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the proper name of the software I am documenting consists of two words,
divided by a dot. The first word is all lower case, the second in capital
letters. For example: soft.WARE
How do I have to write the software name at the beginning of a sentence? Is
it soft.WARE or Soft.WARE?
I know that rewriting a sentence is the best option, but I want to know the
general rule. And I found nothing about capitalization of proper names at
the beginning of a sentence in the CMOS.
TIA and greetings from Germany
Andreas
Andreas Ternes
technical writer
INVITEC GmbH & Co. KG
Düsseldorfer Landstr. 17
D-47249 Duisburg
fon +49 (0)203 7129-311
fax +49 (0)203 7129-333
aternes -at- invitec -dot- com
www.invitec.com
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