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. > I, well Google actually, found a macro, in OOo Basic, which I *think* does > exactly what is required. It has a list of "stop words" built in which can > easily be changed to suit and works on the currently selected text. It was > posted on Aug 31, 2005 ;-) > > It's at http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=23299 > > I installed it in my OOo 2.4.1 on Win XP Pro and assigned it to a key using > Tools>Customise>Keyboard. It worked as advertised. It's very simple so I > assume it'll work in OOo 3.x - unless they've changed the document object > model. > > I installed it by copy/pasting the Basic text (code) from the web page into > a new Writer macro under "My Macros" and then proceeding as normal. I looked at the code in the link you posted. I don't understand most of it (not a programmer!), but from this line: ignore="a,the,than,with,from,of,to,and" I suspect it will not work perfectly correctly for English. The problem is that there are a lot more words that need to be added to the list. Furthermore, most style manuals require the last word of the title to be capitalized even if it is not an important word. I started thinking about how one would program the exception words, and then I discovered that evidently it has already been done for OOo: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=19043 The code in the above link probably does a pretty good job. I didn't try it, however, so I don't know if it still works in 2.4 or 3.0. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
