On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:41:16 -0500
Barbara Duprey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:

> Philipp Giddings wrote:
> > Does anyone know if there is a way to change to title case in OO.o 3

> Not sure what you mean here. Do you want to be able to select text and 
> have an option to automatically set the proper capitalization for a 
> title (i.e., initial caps on the first word and all other words except 
> those like a, an, the, etc.)?

I have asked for that for some time. Does 3.0 finally do that?

Note that the question involves title case in English only. Only
English has this crazy rule that in titles "important" words must be
capitalized, but not "unimportant" words. "Unimportant" includes
articles, prepositions and conjunctions. Having said that, there are
various style manuals for English and exactly which words should be
capitalized and which should not varies a tad bit from one style manual
to the next. For example, some say not to capitalize any prepositions
and others say not to capitalize prepositions unless they are two or
more syllables.

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.
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