Barbara Duprey wrote:
David Trimboli wrote:
Brian Barker wrote:
At 14:31 13/09/2008 -0400, David Trimboli wrote:
I want to create a character style that changes all-capital
abbreviations to small capitals and apply it retroactively, after
the abbreviations have already been typed in all capitals. Is there
any way to do this?
Example:
Harriet, an FBI agent, turned on CNN to get the dirt
on the CIA before going to bed at 9:30 PM.
I want to be able to take text like the example above, select FBI,
CNN, CIA, and PM, apply a character style, and see them as small
capitals. Is this possible? Without retyping or replacing the
abbreviations?
I think you can do this fairly easily as long as you *don't* have the
initialisms in capitals to start with. If you do, it may be
convenient to convert them using Find & Replace. Replace "PM" with
"pm" and so on.
So, in short, no, it's not possible. :)
o With the new style name selected in the list, press the Fill
Format Mode button. The cursor changes to a paint can.
o Go through your text, clicking once with the paint can on each
initialism.
o Press the Fill Format Mode button again (or just press Esc) to
cancel this mode.
Hmm! I didn't know about this mode. Thanks for the tip.
If you just want the caps to be smaller in those cases, couldn't you
just set up your special character style to use a smaller point size
than your normal text?
Yeccch! That's not small caps! Every dead typographer is rolling over in
his or her grave right about now. :)
--
David
Stardate 8703.7
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