Eight years later, I posted the question to ChatGPT, took some of its
suggestions, and now I have an Automator Quick Action that runs an
Applescript that uses BBEdit's make title case as a service on my iMac.
BBEdit's title case leaves unimportant words like "a," "and," and "the"
lowercase unle
On Oct 28, 2015, at 20:15, Michelle wrote:
> I ended up going with Christopher's solution because there is a lot less code
> and the one-per-line "white list" feature is super convenient and easy to
> edit/use.
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We aim to ple
ChristianBoyce and Christopher Stone:
Thank you so very much for your help! I ended up going with Christopher's
solution because there is a lot less code and the one-per-line "white list"
feature is super convenient and easy to edit/use. Thanks again!
For anyone else who is interested, follow
On Oct 20, 2015, at 20:21, Michelle wrote:
> Can anyone help me with this? I have the following, very helpful AppleScript
> that capitalizes the first letter of every word that I select/highlight:
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Hey Michelle,
This sort of
Hi Michelle. I did this a few years ago and modified it a few times too. You
will find an array of words that you want to keep lowercase in the script—
first you see the array capitalized, then you see it lowercase (the way you
want it).
I found, after using my original script, that there were
I have noticed this with most “titlecase” programs that I have
tried. My solution has been to first make everything lowercase and then
apply the titlecase, which seems to work more reliably.
YMMV.
TjL
On 21 Oct 2015, at 2:23, Michelle wrote:
Hello, Fletcher,
Thanks! It's a big improvem
Hello, Fletcher,
Thanks! It's a big improvement over my original. However, it's still not
quite 100% there. Couple things:
1. I need it to change "THE" and "The" to "the" (and the same for all of
the other words that I listed). Currently, it leaves lower-case "the"
uncapitalized, which i
I found a regular expression online and adapted it for BBEdit. If you replace
the else conditional of your script with this it seems to work.
tell application "BBEdit"
tell window 1
if (selection as text) is "" then
set cursorPoint to characterOffset of selection
find "\\b\\w" o
Can anyone help me with this? I have the following, very helpful
AppleScript that capitalizes the first letter of every word that I
select/highlight:
tell application "BBEdit"
tell window 1
if selection as text is "" then
set cursorPoint to characterOffset of selection
find "\\b\\w" options
