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When writing documentation for programmers, it's best to use exactly the names that are in the software to minimize confusion. You can insert extra words to respect capitalization rules. To avoid starting a sentence with the lowercase variable name size, for instance: "Variable size is always less than length."
When writing for a technical audience that ...
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Normally, you should choose a different font for the program identifiers. For example:
If your normal text is in a nice serif font, then put your code identifiers in an ugly sans instead.
If your normal text is already is an ugly sans, then put your code identifiers in a mono instead.
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Not if the language is case sensitive. You would want to write them in the same way as they were written in your program. For example, if taking about the int type in C, you would want to write int even if it's at the start of a sentence.
(Originally posted as a comment.)
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Particular dates use numerals. They are particular objects, referring to particular points in time, just as names refer to particular people.
If it was instead a relative date, such as seven days from now, then we would spell it out.
If it was a relative day of the week, it would appear as text, such as the sixth day of the week on my calendar is ...
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I would personally prefer to see 1st.
I cannot imagine first should be capitalised but I would have to read it twice to understand May first or May First — since May can be a name of a person and first can mean before something else.
How about "on the first of May" or "on the 1st of May"?
Here is the nGram for first of May,1st of May,May First,May ...
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Untidy maybe, but not sloppy. Quite the opposite - it shows careful consideration of the use of the word, and consistency in application of the chosen rules.
Capitalized for a rank/title, lower case for a job description.
I regularly read newspapers in another language, which uses a style where titles are not capitalized, and it looks distinctly odd to ...
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Capitalisation of each line, these days, is only used for exterior reasons (one of the commonest is an acrostic, where the capital letters spell out a word or phrase). Here, it would give the wrong impression.
Capitalising Anniversary would be too solemn for usual language, but would not be wrong in a plaque.
And yes, if you want to include 'California' ...
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