I just tried this and it picked up "I" by itself. You can do that modifying slightly the regex-function I wrote above. Suggestion: you could also surround the whole capitalized sentence with the tag SENTENCE, it will be much less aggressive, small-caps are often used as an acceptable emphasis. If you want a more refined treatment, you'll have to imagine how you can lead with the exceptions and translate that logic into your regex-function You have another possibility, it's to write into a temp file all the capitalized words not dict-recognized, and decide what you want to do with them (you can do that in a regex-function you could store them in a python set, and write the set on the last passage of the function) The last "return" leaves the non-recognized words as they are, it's up to you to do another treatment on them. Return wordThis will transform only the recognized words. Thanks everyone for exploring this and sharing.Ĭode: def replace(match, number, file_name, metadata, dictionaries, data, functions, *args, **kwargs): I suppose I could use text-to-speech, then speech-to-text.
How to do small caps in word 2011 plus#
I presume a thoroughly well-developed multi-line iterative interdependent program would include lookups to leave words like US and NJ and FISA and the like - known abbreviations, and maybe have a user toggle for CAPS-WITH-HYPHEN to either Caps-with-hyphen or Caps-With-Hyphen, plus awareness of punctuation, such that titles of works and headings get Leading Caps, and first lines of paragraphs get Sentence caps. On the other hand, I still have to scan the entire ebook manually, make a decision on every single WORD, manually, so this is still not an automatic whole-ebook-conversion solution.īut a significant improvement nonetheless.ĭoes anyone else have any other routine that they use to change YELLING to Leading Caps or Sentence caps? So, on the one hand, the \b(])\b suggestion works. such as replacing all JOHN with John.Īnd, unlike my 2-step, which finds entire phrases, this find one word at a time.
How to do small caps in word 2011 series#
Yes, thank you, that reduces 5-clicks per word in or the resulting 5-or-so-clicks required by my alternative 2-step of ( 1 ) search and make lower, then ( 2 ) re-search and make Leading Caps, taking either routine down to 1 or two clicks per CAPS word or phrase, manually, throughout the whole ebook.īut, unlike fixing in, I must fix each occurrence of a YELLING word, or additionally make a separate series of for words that I know reoccur. the user making editing decisions on each found word depending on actual word contents.
Thanks for your consideration, for letting me explore this, and share, I look forward to insights. Plus, Internet-wise, we all know that YELLING is dis-inviting of the audience's attention. is there a way to fix so we can select our target case in one step?ĭoes anyone have a routine, a script, a program/extension, an add-in scheme to AUTO-CONVERT YELLING to Leading Caps throughout an entire ebook during Calibre editing?īackground - for dyslexia-type readers, ALL CAPS interferes with word recognition, versus Leading Caps, smalls, descenders, ascenders, which are all better suited to support quick word shape recognition for the reader. It would be nice to twin-sequence convert in one step, all lower case, then Leading Caps, but Leading Caps does not work on YELLING - so, maybe another sub-question: when the previous section is re-found and highlighted, select via when YELLING is found and highlighted, select viaĬlick in the editing white space above the current selection to unselect it,įind, Mode: search again for click repeatedly to move through the ebook, I can use Find, Mode: search in two iterative steps for every YELLING-to-Leading-Caps occasion that I want to change, but that is not much better than the spellcheck scheme, time-wise.įind, Mode: search for
is there is any way to normalize spellcheck's quirks? sometimes the default suggested replacement word is the same as the original word, sometimes the default suggested word is close but wrong,
sometimes the list of possible replacement words is not alphabetical, sometimes the appropriate replacement word is shown in italics, This is arduous, time-consuming, and spellcheck quirks require careful attention - is there a better way? Repeat those 5 steps for every YELLING WORD in the ebook to convert them one at a time to Leading Caps. I spend 5-clicks on each YELLING word to convert it to Leading Caps:ġ - left-click on YELLING-WORD under the spellcheck listĢ - left-click on the appropriate matching replacement word under ģ - right-click on the word as it appears under Ĥ - right-click and select from two pop-up/down menusĥ - left-click
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