Hi Charlie, Many thanks for the proposed solution!
Best wishes Mohammad On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 7:39 PM Charlie Veniot <[email protected]> wrote: > *NOTE: In the code below, I only applied lowercasing rules to a few of > the many short conjunctions/articles/prepositions. A final solution would > expand the code to include all of the short words.* > > Ok, that was fun. Here's how I approached it (paste the following > content into a new tiddler) : > > \define SetToTitleCaseCap(inputTitle) > > <$text text= > {{{ [enlist:raw[$inputTitle$]] +[rest[1]] +[lowercase[]] > +[sentencecase[]] a +[replace[A]] an +[replace[An]] in +[replace[In]] > the +[replace[The]] +[join[ ]] > [enlist:raw[$inputTitle$]first[1]lowercase[]sentencecase[]] +[putfirst[]] > +[join[ ]] }}}/> > > \end > > Nice challenge! If this part +[replace[A]] an +[replace[An]] in +[replace[In]] the +[replace[The]] minor words could be read from a tiddler or a function, I think it would be more flexible! By the way this works fine! > * <<SetToTitleCaseCap "SOME TITLE">> > * <<SetToTitleCaseCap "some title">> > * <<SetToTitleCaseCap "an adventure in tiddlywiki filtering, or an > otherwise interesting doodad">> > * <<SetToTitleCaseCap "A good time having coffee with a friend">> > * <<SetToTitleCaseCap "The time i laughed to snort in the car">> > > ---- > > Ref: > https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/capitalization/title-case > > On Sunday, April 11, 2021 at 8:16:53 AM UTC-3 Mohammad wrote: > >> I am trying to *peacefully *;-) :-) :-) convert the title of a book or >> article to title case (see >> https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/capitalization/sentence-case >> ) >> >> So I wrote a code like below >> >> \define myTitle() >> multidisciplinary and multicultural knowledge transfer and sharing in >> higher education teamworking >> \end >> >> \define minorWords() a an and but for in on of >> >> <$list filter="[<myTitle>titlecase[]split[ ]!isblack[]]" variable=p2> >> <$list filter="[<minorWords>search::literal<p2>then<p2>lowercase[]] >> ~[<p2>]" variable=p3> >> <<p3>> >> </$list> >> </$list> >> >> This works fine, but seems lengthy and bad practice! What do you propose? >> Can search-replace with regex do the job? >> >> >> Best wishes >> Mohammad >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/6a6d88c6-c43d-415c-9fa1-925ca4126b45n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/6a6d88c6-c43d-415c-9fa1-925ca4126b45n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/CAAV1gMCRaq04uU%2Bs3MisPX8HYqESZ2anH%3DK5ycWFs1q2-8i5Aw%40mail.gmail.com.
