Like anything language related, there will always be multiple ways to 
standardize it. 

• Title case
• Initial cap
• Book case
• Proper capitalization

and so on. Choose your poison. *“Title case”* and *“Initial cap”* sometimes 
are defined as the same thing, but being an armchair editor-type, my seeing 
the word *“And”* capitalized in a sentence really makes me tilt my head 
like a puppy. I introduced the phrase *“Book case”* to address the need for 
some of the words to remain lowercase, but then if you go to 
capitalizemytitle.com, you'll see nine different ways of defining which 
words get capitalized or not in any given title, *"APA, Chicago, AP, MLA, 
BB, AMA, NYT, Wiki, and Email."* 

The nice thing about standards is there are so many of them! as they say. 

I went down MacOS's Services rabbit hole, looking to see if there were any 
way to make BBEdit's Title Case available to Chrome, but it doesn't look 
like that's going to be a possibility. My thought was

1. Open BBEdit
2. Find the Title Case service
3. Enable or export it somehow, making it available to other apps
4. Go to Chrome
5. Open Chrome Services menu
6. Capture or import BBEdit's Title Case service

and thus make BBEdit's Title Case available to anything I have highlighted 
in Chrome's interface, but… it's not working. Someone smarter than me is 
going to have to step in and hold my hand. :-Z

Doug 

On Thursday, November 16, 2023 at 7:02:56 AM UTC-8 Kaveh Bazargan wrote:

> So it has a list of words like "the" etc that stay as lower case even in 
> Title case? It if makes you feel better, Doug, I did not know that either!! 
> Every day something new with BBEdit! 
>
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 at 13:28, Doug Parker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'm embarrassed to say yes it is. Thank you. 
>>
>> MacOS has a change case that does initial cap only. Now that I know that 
>> BBEdit has what I want, I can get to installing its Title Case 
>> Capitalization as a service in other places and other applications on the 
>> Mac. 
>>
>> Doug
>>
>> On Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 12:11:31 PM UTC-8 Bruce Van Allen 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Isn’t that “Title Case” in BBEdit’s Text -> Change Case options? 
>>>
>>> — Bruce 
>>>
>>> _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > On Nov 15, 2023, at 11:57 AM, Doug Parker <[email protected]> wrote: 
>>> > 
>>> > In MacOS, how can BBE be programmed to do book caps, not initial caps? 
>>> For example, small words get omitted, like 
>>> > 
>>> > • a 
>>> > • an 
>>> > • and 
>>> > • the 
>>> > 
>>> > Or, is there a way to add a service so it book caps? 
>>> > 
>>> > Oh, yeah, and there needs to be an option for *which words to omit,* 
>>> since it's language-oriented and there'll be thousands of ways to choose. 
>>> > 
>>> > Thanks. 
>>> > 
>>> > DP, Henderson, NV, USA 
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