Text string in title case?

[Tina Ricks]

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

Editor

Trial Guides, LLC

tina at trialguides.com

Text string in title case?

[Mike Wickham]

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" 
To: 
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
>
> Editor
>
> Trial Guides, LLC
>
> tina at trialguides.com
>
>
>
>
>
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Text string in title case?

[Tina Ricks]

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:mewick...@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" 
To: 
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
>
> Editor
>
> Trial Guides, LLC
>
> tina at trialguides.com
>
>
>
>
>
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Text string in title case?

[Mike Wickham]

> 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.


The only idea I can come up with is a wildcard search. In the Find/Change 
dialogue check "Consider Case" and "Use Wildcards." Then search for 
[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]. This will find all instances of three capital letters in a 
row (and assumes no book titles have less than three capital letters). If 
you know the shortest number of characters in a book title, you might add 
more [A-Z] entries to eliminate finding ISBN and other acronyms. Anyway, the 
wildcard search will find the book titles, but leave you stuck changing 
their case manually. Maybe some of the better minds here will have an idea 
how to do that.

See help for "Finding and changing " and "Searching for special characters 
and nonprinting symbols" for more information.

Mike Wickham

Text string in title case?

[rebecca officer]

I'm using an old version of Shlomo Perets' extremely useful expanded toolbar 
and it has a button to change the selected string to sentence case. It says the 
keyboard shortcut is Alt+F2. That may be generic on all systems, even those 
without the toolbar. If so, you could use Mike's wildcard search to select each 
title and then Alt+F2 to change them. A lot quicker than retyping!

Cheers, Rebecca

>>> "Mike Wickham"  28/02/08 17:23 >>>
> 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.


The only idea I can come up with is a wildcard search. In the Find/Change 
dialogue check "Consider Case" and "Use Wildcards." Then search for 
[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]. This will find all instances of three capital letters in a 
row (and assumes no book titles have less than three capital letters). If 
you know the shortest number of characters in a book title, you might add 
more [A-Z] entries to eliminate finding ISBN and other acronyms. Anyway, the 
wildcard search will find the book titles, but leave you stuck changing 
their case manually. Maybe some of the better minds here will have an idea 
how to do that.

See help for "Finding and changing " and "Searching for special characters 
and nonprinting symbols" for more information.

Mike Wickham


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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  
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 
>  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" 
>  >  To: 
>  >  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
>  >  >
>  >  > Editor
>  >  >
>  >  > Trial Guides, LLC
>  >  >
>  >  > tina at trialguides.com
>  >  >
>  >  >
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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  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,
>
>
>
> 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
>
> Editor
>
> Trial Guides, LLC
>
> tina at trialguides.com
>

Text string in title case?

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Paul,

For Windows FrameMaker, you can use FrameScript. If anyone is interested in 
a script like this, please contact me offlist. Thanks.

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com

> 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  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

Text string in title case?

[Peter Gold]

In the days of FM/unix, before book-wide search/replace and other
come-lately power features, something like this would be done with
fmbatch and one or more of GREP, AWK, and SED text-manipulation tools.

The general plan was to use control fmbatch with a unix script to
convert all appropriate .fm files to MIF, then perform the
text-crunching on the MIF files, then reconvert the MIF files back to
.fm with fmbatch.

If there's enough volume to repay the effort, something similar would
work today with mif2go from omsys.com, dobatch from cudspan, dzbatcher
from datazone.com, or FM2MIF (a new free utility that installs under
FM's File > Utilities menu option, from dtptools.com, to convert
directories-full of .fm files to MIF). I believe mif2go's MIF
converter is free; dobatch and dzbatcher are free. All but FM2MIF work
like fmbatch.

Instead of the unix tools, Perl or other newer text-manglers can do
the find/replace, perhaps with the assistance of GREP.

Converting .fm to MIF is the first step.

The second step would be to find all the ALL CAPS titles in all the
MIFs, collect them into a single-column list from which you can remove
the duplicates, and create a second column with the precise conversion
for each title - this would settle style issues over which title words
to make all lowercase, etc.

The third step would be to find and replace every instance of the
uppercase titles with their title cased partner in the MIF, without
damaging the MIF file's integrity. This may take some care in cases
where the titles break across lines, etc.

Finally, you'd use one of the fmbatch-replacements to reconstruct .fm
files from the MIFs.

I'm not a coder or scripter. Heck, my long-term and short-term memory
aren't that good anymore. BUT, it's hard to forget a proven tool-chain
process like this.

HTH
Regards,

Peter
___
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KnowHow ProServices

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Paul Findon  wrote:
> 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   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,
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > 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
>  >
>  > Editor
>  >
>  > Trial Guides, LLC
>  >
>  > tina at trialguides.com
>  >

Text string in title case?

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Peter,

This is one of the strengths of MIF: that you can get an ASCII 
representation of your FM document and do manipulations like this. However, 
the advantage of FrameScript (and the FDK) is that you can work directly on 
the FrameMaker document (or book) without risk of corrupting the MIF file. 
FrameScript has built-in string functions as well as the ability to use 
regular expressions.

I recently did a TitleCase script that used an INI file for exceptions, both 
for acronyms that should stay uppercase and words that should be lowercase.

[Upper]
ADA=
II=
III=
IV=
HVAC=
TV=
XY=
UCLA=
ICU=
PA=
HUCLA=
USC=
LAC=

[Lower]
and=
to=

The script could be restricted to processing particular paragraph formats in 
order to limit its scope. Another useful feature is that each paragraph that 
is changed can be written to a hyperlinked log file. This would allow you to 
check what was actually changed, and to jump to a changed paragraph if 
necessary.

Depending on the scope of a problem, sometimes you have to fix things like 
this by hand. However, for anyone that uses FrameMaker on a near daily 
basis, FrameScript is definitely worthwhile to learn. I am amazed by how 
much people do "by hand" with FrameMaker.

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com


> In the days of FM/unix, before book-wide search/replace and other
> come-lately power features, something like this would be done with
> fmbatch and one or more of GREP, AWK, and SED text-manipulation tools.
>
> The general plan was to use control fmbatch with a unix script to
> convert all appropriate .fm files to MIF, then perform the
> text-crunching on the MIF files, then reconvert the MIF files back to
> .fm with fmbatch.
>
> If there's enough volume to repay the effort, something similar would
> work today with mif2go from omsys.com, dobatch from cudspan, dzbatcher
> from datazone.com, or FM2MIF (a new free utility that installs under
> FM's File > Utilities menu option, from dtptools.com, to convert
> directories-full of .fm files to MIF). I believe mif2go's MIF
> converter is free; dobatch and dzbatcher are free. All but FM2MIF work
> like fmbatch.
>
> Instead of the unix tools, Perl or other newer text-manglers can do
> the find/replace, perhaps with the assistance of GREP.
>
> Converting .fm to MIF is the first step.
>
> The second step would be to find all the ALL CAPS titles in all the
> MIFs, collect them into a single-column list from which you can remove
> the duplicates, and create a second column with the precise conversion
> for each title - this would settle style issues over which title words
> to make all lowercase, etc.
>
> The third step would be to find and replace every instance of the
> uppercase titles with their title cased partner in the MIF, without
> damaging the MIF file's integrity. This may take some care in cases
> where the titles break across lines, etc.
>
> Finally, you'd use one of the fmbatch-replacements to reconstruct .fm
> files from the MIFs.
>
> I'm not a coder or scripter. Heck, my long-term and short-term memory
> aren't that good anymore. BUT, it's hard to forget a proven tool-chain
> process like this.
>
> HTH
> Regards,
>
> Peter
> ___
> Peter Gold
> KnowHow ProServices

Text string in title case?

[Peter Gold]

Hi, Rick:


On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Rick Quatro  
wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
>  This is one of the strengths of MIF: that you can get an ASCII
>  representation of your FM document and do manipulations like this. However,
>  the advantage of FrameScript (and the FDK) is that you can work directly on
>  the FrameMaker document (or book) without risk of corrupting the MIF file.
>  FrameScript has built-in string functions as well as the ability to use
>  regular expressions.

I have no argument. My point was simply to mention that it's possible
to do this operation with some readily-available tools.


Regards,

Peter
___
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KnowHow ProServices

Text string in title case?

[Tina Ricks]

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

Editor

Trial Guides, LLC

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Re: Text string in title case?

[Mike Wickham]

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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
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
>
> Editor
>
> Trial Guides, LLC
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
>
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RE: Text string in title case?

[Tina Ricks]

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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
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
>
> Editor
>
> Trial Guides, LLC
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: Text string in title case?

[Mike Wickham]

> 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.


The only idea I can come up with is a wildcard search. In the Find/Change 
dialogue check "Consider Case" and "Use Wildcards." Then search for 
[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]. This will find all instances of three capital letters in a 
row (and assumes no book titles have less than three capital letters). If 
you know the shortest number of characters in a book title, you might add 
more [A-Z] entries to eliminate finding ISBN and other acronyms. Anyway, the 
wildcard search will find the book titles, but leave you stuck changing 
their case manually. Maybe some of the better minds here will have an idea 
how to do that.

See help for "Finding and changing " and "Searching for special characters 
and nonprinting symbols" for more information.

Mike Wickham


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Re: Text string in title case?

[rebecca officer]

I'm using an old version of Shlomo Perets' extremely useful expanded toolbar 
and it has a button to change the selected string to sentence case. It says the 
keyboard shortcut is Alt+F2. That may be generic on all systems, even those 
without the toolbar. If so, you could use Mike's wildcard search to select each 
title and then Alt+F2 to change them. A lot quicker than retyping!

Cheers, Rebecca

>>> "Mike Wickham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 28/02/08 17:23 >>>
> 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.


The only idea I can come up with is a wildcard search. In the Find/Change 
dialogue check "Consider Case" and "Use Wildcards." Then search for 
[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]. This will find all instances of three capital letters in a 
row (and assumes no book titles have less than three capital letters). If 
you know the shortest number of characters in a book title, you might add 
more [A-Z] entries to eliminate finding ISBN and other acronyms. Anyway, the 
wildcard search will find the book titles, but leave you stuck changing 
their case manually. Maybe some of the better minds here will have an idea 
how to do that.

See help for "Finding and changing " and "Searching for special characters 
and nonprinting symbols" for more information.

Mike Wickham


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Re: 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It works! Hooray! You're a hero.
>
>  Where did you find the Alt+Ctrl+C in the Frame manual?
>
>  tina ricks | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>  -Original Message-
>  From: Art Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>  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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  >  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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>  >  To: 
>  >  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
>  >  >
>  >  > Editor
>  >  >
>  >  > Trial Guides, LLC
>  >  >
>  >  > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  >  >
>  >  >
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Re: 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  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,
>
>
>
> 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
>
> Editor
>
> Trial Guides, LLC
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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Re: Text string in title case?

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Paul,

For Windows FrameMaker, you can use FrameScript. If anyone is interested in 
a script like this, please contact me offlist. Thanks.

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com

> 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  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

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Re: Text string in title case?

[Peter Gold]

In the days of FM/unix, before book-wide search/replace and other
come-lately power features, something like this would be done with
fmbatch and one or more of GREP, AWK, and SED text-manipulation tools.

The general plan was to use control fmbatch with a unix script to
convert all appropriate .fm files to MIF, then perform the
text-crunching on the MIF files, then reconvert the MIF files back to
.fm with fmbatch.

If there's enough volume to repay the effort, something similar would
work today with mif2go from omsys.com, dobatch from cudspan, dzbatcher
from datazone.com, or FM2MIF (a new free utility that installs under
FM's File > Utilities menu option, from dtptools.com, to convert
directories-full of .fm files to MIF). I believe mif2go's MIF
converter is free; dobatch and dzbatcher are free. All but FM2MIF work
like fmbatch.

Instead of the unix tools, Perl or other newer text-manglers can do
the find/replace, perhaps with the assistance of GREP.

Converting .fm to MIF is the first step.

The second step would be to find all the ALL CAPS titles in all the
MIFs, collect them into a single-column list from which you can remove
the duplicates, and create a second column with the precise conversion
for each title - this would settle style issues over which title words
to make all lowercase, etc.

The third step would be to find and replace every instance of the
uppercase titles with their title cased partner in the MIF, without
damaging the MIF file's integrity. This may take some care in cases
where the titles break across lines, etc.

Finally, you'd use one of the fmbatch-replacements to reconstruct .fm
files from the MIFs.

I'm not a coder or scripter. Heck, my long-term and short-term memory
aren't that good anymore. BUT, it's hard to forget a proven tool-chain
process like this.

HTH
Regards,

Peter
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On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Paul Findon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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   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,
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > 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
>  >
>  > Editor
>  >
>  > Trial Guides, LLC
>  >
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Re: Text string in title case?

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Peter,

This is one of the strengths of MIF: that you can get an ASCII 
representation of your FM document and do manipulations like this. However, 
the advantage of FrameScript (and the FDK) is that you can work directly on 
the FrameMaker document (or book) without risk of corrupting the MIF file. 
FrameScript has built-in string functions as well as the ability to use 
regular expressions.

I recently did a TitleCase script that used an INI file for exceptions, both 
for acronyms that should stay uppercase and words that should be lowercase.

[Upper]
ADA=
II=
III=
IV=
HVAC=
TV=
XY=
UCLA=
ICU=
PA=
HUCLA=
USC=
LAC=

[Lower]
and=
to=

The script could be restricted to processing particular paragraph formats in 
order to limit its scope. Another useful feature is that each paragraph that 
is changed can be written to a hyperlinked log file. This would allow you to 
check what was actually changed, and to jump to a changed paragraph if 
necessary.

Depending on the scope of a problem, sometimes you have to fix things like 
this by hand. However, for anyone that uses FrameMaker on a near daily 
basis, FrameScript is definitely worthwhile to learn. I am amazed by how 
much people do "by hand" with FrameMaker.

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com


> In the days of FM/unix, before book-wide search/replace and other
> come-lately power features, something like this would be done with
> fmbatch and one or more of GREP, AWK, and SED text-manipulation tools.
>
> The general plan was to use control fmbatch with a unix script to
> convert all appropriate .fm files to MIF, then perform the
> text-crunching on the MIF files, then reconvert the MIF files back to
> .fm with fmbatch.
>
> If there's enough volume to repay the effort, something similar would
> work today with mif2go from omsys.com, dobatch from cudspan, dzbatcher
> from datazone.com, or FM2MIF (a new free utility that installs under
> FM's File > Utilities menu option, from dtptools.com, to convert
> directories-full of .fm files to MIF). I believe mif2go's MIF
> converter is free; dobatch and dzbatcher are free. All but FM2MIF work
> like fmbatch.
>
> Instead of the unix tools, Perl or other newer text-manglers can do
> the find/replace, perhaps with the assistance of GREP.
>
> Converting .fm to MIF is the first step.
>
> The second step would be to find all the ALL CAPS titles in all the
> MIFs, collect them into a single-column list from which you can remove
> the duplicates, and create a second column with the precise conversion
> for each title - this would settle style issues over which title words
> to make all lowercase, etc.
>
> The third step would be to find and replace every instance of the
> uppercase titles with their title cased partner in the MIF, without
> damaging the MIF file's integrity. This may take some care in cases
> where the titles break across lines, etc.
>
> Finally, you'd use one of the fmbatch-replacements to reconstruct .fm
> files from the MIFs.
>
> I'm not a coder or scripter. Heck, my long-term and short-term memory
> aren't that good anymore. BUT, it's hard to forget a proven tool-chain
> process like this.
>
> HTH
> Regards,
>
> Peter
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Re: Text string in title case?

[Peter Gold]

Hi, Rick:


On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Rick Quatro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
>  This is one of the strengths of MIF: that you can get an ASCII
>  representation of your FM document and do manipulations like this. However,
>  the advantage of FrameScript (and the FDK) is that you can work directly on
>  the FrameMaker document (or book) without risk of corrupting the MIF file.
>  FrameScript has built-in string functions as well as the ability to use
>  regular expressions.

I have no argument. My point was simply to mention that it's possible
to do this operation with some readily-available tools.


Regards,

Peter
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