> [Original Message]
> From: John Jason Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <users@openoffice.org>
> Date: 10/4/2008 6:43:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [users] Title Case
>
> On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:35:19 +0100
> Harold Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
>
> > On 04/10/2008 18:04, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > > On Sat, 4 Oct 2008 09:57:01 +0100
> > > "Harold Fuchs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
> > >
> > >
> > >>> If OOo 3.0 does not have a real title case feature for English, I
have
> > >>> a suggestion for a simple workaround. It turns out that the
> > >>> "unimportant" words are a short list - a couple hundred at the max.
So
> > >>> we could create a macro which would (1) capitalize the first letter
of
> > >>> all words in a selection of text and then (2) search for each of the
> > >>> "unimportant" words and uncapitalize it. This macro could then be
added
> > >>> to the user's toolbar. I've thought of recording the macro and then
> > >>> editing it to add the list of "unimportant" words, but I've been too
> > >>> busy to get around to it.
>
> > As I said "It has a list of "stop words" built in which can easily be
changed to suit ...".
> > You found the list.
>
> It's way more complicated than just making a list of "stop" words.
>
> As I noted earlier, most style manuals require the last word of the
> title to be capitalized even if it is a "stop" word. Ditto for the
> first word of the title. And then there are titles with colons in them,
> where the first word after the colon must be capitalized even if it is
> a "stop" word.
>
> I thought I'd try to record a macro to do this. My plan was to record
> the macro using just one "stop" word, and at the end move the cursor to
> the beginning of the selection, select the next character and
> capitalize it, then to the end and search backwards for a space, select
> the next character forward and capitalize it, then search for a colon
> and if found, move forward on space, select the next character and
> capitalize it. When the macro was recorded then I planned to inspect
> the code and duplicate the search and replace for the "stop" word that
> I used by adding other "stop" words. But I failed when I discovered I
> couldn't search and replace within selected text only. Bah. I'll just
> wait until 3.0 comes out and see if I can get the big one working that
> Gene Kohlenberg got working on 3.0.
>
> > I'd be interested to hear from you if you think it works as you clearly
> > have more experience in this area than I do.
>
> Sadly, I know what the macro has to do; I just don't know how to write
> code.
> --
>
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