That's right. I figured Luis knew about that already, but perhaps not. Thanks.
-- Paul Berkowitz > From: Steve Sell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 16:38:04 -0500 > To: Entourage Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Stop Capitalizing iBook > > Actually, you can do it by editing the word after you put the space after > it... For example, if you type > > IBooks are cool! > > And then go back and select the "I" and type an "i" it will stay. It seems > to apply the autocorrect when you hit the spacebar after the word. > > -Steve > > On 3/19/02 4:25 PM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> You haven't noticed that Entourage has its own AutoCorrect which works the >> same way. Go to Tools menu/AutoCorrect, and uncheck "Capitalize first letter >> of sentences". Pretty simple. >> >> Luis' problem is, I think, more complicated. As I understand it, he _wants_ >> to keep the "Capitalize first letter" preference, but to make an exception >> for "iBook". I don't think that's possible: as I understand it, the >> exceptions are for excluding words following abbreviations: normally the >> period would signal and "end of sentence", so the word following would be >> capitalized, but the exception for the abbreviations tells Entourage not to >> see the NEXT word as the beginning of a sentence. There's nothing you can do >> to except the word itself: by and large, it's poor English to begin real >> sentences with lower-case letters. Since I write a lot of AppleScripts, and >> exchange code by email, and since AppleScript lines need to begin with >> lower-case characters, I have to turn off that pref myself. If you write >> lots of sentences beginning "iBooks", you'll either have to turn off the >> pref too, or actually begin the sentence with a symbol: >> >> 'iBooks are especially prevalent hereabouts. Or >> >> �iBooks are in great demand. >> >> The second one I did with option-shift-9, but I wouldn't recommend it as it >> will get mangled by Windows computers. >> > > > -- > To unsubscribe: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > archives: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> > old-archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
