On Fri, 2001-11-09 at 10:12, Tomas Frydrych wrote: > At the moment we have (1) lowercase, (2) uppercase, (3) first- > capital-rest-lowercase (not in the dialogues yet); (4) sentence > case, (5) title case, (6) toggle case (cASE x Case). > > I consider 1-3 very useful, and 4 occasionally useful. As far as 5 > and 6 are conserned, I consider them gimmics that we can and > should do without. The toggle case is very difficult to implement > properly, we would need language-specific word lists to know what > to capitalise and what not. The alternative, the user doing their title > capitalisation by hand is more efficient and clean, and I would > argue that > it actually requires less effort than to make a selection, open the > dialogue, and then check the result is satisfactory. As far as (6) is > concerned, I do not see any real use for it, since the only two > meaningful > results it can produce (case, CASE) are already take care of by 1 > & 2. > So I am inclined to add (3) to the dialogue, remove 5 & 6 from it, > and close the title case bug.
Hmms.. I don't think toggle case should be removed, but maybe only implement it with ascii characters, perhaps also accented characters? Hugs, rms -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi + So let's do it...?
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