On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:36:24 -0400 Gene Kohlenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
> John Jason Jordan wrote: > > On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:35:19 +0100 > > Harold Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: > >> As I said "It has a list of "stop words" built in which can easily be > >> changed to suit ...". > >> You found the list. > > It's way more complicated than just making a list of "stop" words. > > > > As I noted earlier, most style manuals require the last word of the > > title to be capitalized even if it is a "stop" word. Ditto for the > > first word of the title. And then there are titles with colons in them, > > where the first word after the colon must be capitalized even if it is > > a "stop" word. > >> I'd be interested to hear from you if you think it works as you clearly > >> have more experience in this area than I do. > > Sadly, I know what the macro has to do; I just don't know how to write > > code. > By "it works" I meant that the macro ran without crashing. I found that > the macro was set to use lower case for some verbs and pronouns that the > web site Writers Block confirmed should have been capitalized. So I > went into the list and deleted them. I would still review the title > after running the macro to make sure that the results were what I > expected. It's much faster than having to change case manually. On the page where that code was posted one person said that he had run it 3,000 times with perfect results. But I agree, title case in English is so complicated that it would take ten times that much code to do it perfectly. It's a timesaver, but you're still going to have to use your human brain to check the results. Perhaps when 3.0 goes final you can contribute your corrections back to the list or add it as a downloadable macro somewhere. There must be someplace on openoffice.org where such things belong. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
