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------- Additional comments from j...@openoffice.org Tue Aug 10 17:13:17 +0000 2010 ------- tl, thanks for your post. You ask two questions: BEHAVIOUR OF SENTENCE CASE After writing a first draft for this reply, it occurred to me that, logically, there's actually no reason to offer anything more complicated than capitalizing the first word of the sentence, with everything else lowercase. Two reasons: 1. Assuming that the main usage of Sentence case is to quickly correct blocks of text in all-caps or in all lower-case, guessing the casing of proper nouns, acronyms etc would be a cpu-heavy waste of resources, and pointless if the words aren't in a dictionary. In other words, the user would likely have to correct stuff manually anyway. 2. If the original text is mixed case (where some words are and should remain capitalized, like proper nouns and acronyms), it's unlikely a user would want or need to apply Sentence case, as the casing should, in theory, already be correct! In other words, and conversely, you're unlikely to come across a block of text whose sentences start with lowercase but which contain words that have and should have caps. Conclusion: keep it simple by just capitalizing the first letter of each sentence. ********************************************** SELECTION SCOPE I'd expect the selection(s) to (temporarily) expand to cover the entire sentence. This is what I've implemented in a case toggling macro that applies my own casing code: when it gets around to sentence case, it temporarily expands the selections to entire sentences, before restoring the original selections. As I'm not up to speed with textcursors and the like, I use temporary bookmarks to mark the original selections (RegExp would have been easier, but kills character formatting). The advantage of selection expansion is apparent when applying a casing routine to multiple selections. Instead of having to carefully select each sentence in its entirety (and risk accidentally clearing all selections by misclicking and having to start again), I can scoot through a document CTRL-clicking any bits of those sentences, before firing off the macro. Thanks again --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@sw.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@sw.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
