Text string in title case?

[Art Campbell]

Cool.
I'm not sure it's in the manual, but I think it's in the QRC in the
online documents directory.

Art

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Tina Ricks <kristina.ricks at verizon.net> wrote:
> It works! Hooray! You're a hero.
>
>  Where did you find the Alt+Ctrl+C in the Frame manual?
>
>  tina ricks | kristina.ricks at verizon.net
>
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Art Campbell [mailto:art.campbell at gmail.com]
>  Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 7:59 PM
>  To: Tina Ricks
>  Subject: Re: Text string in title case?
>
>  I think you can do it by searching with a wildcard string that only
>  lists capital letters and spaces, and then manually hitting Alt+Ctrl+c
>  to get the title case.
>
>  Art
>
>
>  On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Tina Ricks <kristina.ricks at verizon.net>
>  wrote:
>  > Sorry... I wasn't clear. Search/replace won't work.
>  >
>  >  It's lots and lots of different book titles, all throughout a 600 page
>  >  manuscript. This is a legal textbook with loads of footnotes, which
>  contain
>  >  references to many other works. The previous author set all the book
>  titles
>  >  in all caps, now they need to be cap/lowercase (title case).
>  >
>  >  So a search/replace doesn't work. I'm trying to avoid retyping all these
>  >  titles. Seems like the best so far is to change the case to lower, and
>  >  retype the initial caps where needed.
>  >
>  >  Tina Ricks
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  -----Original Message-----
>  >  From: Mike Wickham [mailto:mewickham at compuserve.com]
>  >  Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 4:02 PM
>  >  To: Tina Ricks; Frame Users
>  >  Subject: Re: Text string in title case?
>  >
>  >  I must be misunderstanding you because it sounds like a simple
>  Find/Change
>  >  would do it.
>  >
>  >  1. In the Find/Change dialogue box, set Find to Text: "The Title of This
>  >  Book." Make sure the "Consider Case" checkbox is unchecked and
>  Find/Change
>  >  will find the phrase no matter what case it is.
>  >
>  >  2. In the Find/Change dialogue box, set Change to Text: "The Title of
>  This
>  >  Book" (capitalized the way you want). That will do it. Of course, if
>  you've
>  >  set "Small Caps," "Uppercase," or "Lowercase" in the Paragraph Format or
>  >  Character Format that contains the phrase, the setting will override the
>  >  intended result.
>  >
>  >  3. In the Find/Change dialogue, be sure that "Book" is selected. Then hit
>  >  Find.
>  >
>  >  Mike Wickham
>  >
>  >  ----- Original Message -----
>  >  From: "Tina Ricks" <kristina.ricks at verizon.net>
>  >  To: <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
>  >  Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 5:13 PM
>  >  Subject: Text string in title case?
>  >
>  >
>  >  >
>  >  > Hi all,
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  > I'm trying to put many text strings (book titles) throughout a long
>  book
>  >  > into title case. I need to do this at the character level, not the
>  >  > paragraph. For example, changing
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  > THE TITLE OF THIS BOOK
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  > to
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  > The Title of This Book
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  > So. it needs to have some logic, i.e. knows to skip conjunctions like
>  "of"
>  >  > and "and" etc.
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  > I can see in the character designer how to change a set of characters
>  to
>  >  > small caps, lowercase, or uppercase. Does anyone know of a way to make
>  >  > this
>  >  > ability go one step further and become title case?
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  > Tina Ricks
>  >  >
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  "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52
Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
                                                      No disclaimers apply.
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