Text string in title case?

[Paul Findon]

Hi Tina,

This is impossible with FrameMaker alone. I thought perhaps Spell  
Catcher could handle it, as it does have commands for changing case  
to Title style, but even that simply capitalises the first letter of  
each word.

A job for AppleScript perhaps? (NG to you unless you use Mac  
FrameMaker.)

I found a script at <http://bbs.applescript.net/viewtopic.php? 
id=13297> that, in addition to changing case to Title style, can also  
set a bunch of specified definite and indefinite articles,  
conjunctions, and prepositions that don't start a sentence to  
lowercase. Something the script author has called "Mixed" style.

I'm not a programmer, but with a little head scratching, I managed to  
edit this script so that it searches an open FrameMaker document and  
changes all paragraphs tagged "Heading1" or whatever you like to  
Mixed style. Works a treat!

Incidentally, for Title style (or what CMOS calls "Headline" style),  
do you follow the Microsoft style of not capitalising prepositions of  
four or fewer letters. Or Apple's style of not capitalising  
prepositions of three or fewer letters. Or CMOS's recommendation of  
lowercasing prepositions regardless of length?

Styles - you gotta love 'em.

Paul


> Hi all,
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> 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
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> THE TITLE OF THIS BOOK
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> to
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> The Title of This Book
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> So. it needs to have some logic, i.e. knows to skip conjunctions  
> like "of"
> and "and" etc.
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> 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?
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> Tina Ricks
>
> Editor
>
> Trial Guides, LLC
>
> tina at trialguides.com
>