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From: "Micha Feigin" <michf-+lLcF8/[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: gmane.editors.lyx.general
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 12:49 PM
Subject: Changing case of word
Is it possible in latex to automatically change the case of a word
(capitalize
all/first letter)?
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It is possible inside a text file and some other kinds.
You are looking for a "script", an automated procedure.
This works best with Windows and Cygwin; or you can
use Perl or Python for Windows which are free downloads.
This type of file manipulation is part regular expressions.
Maybe LyX can use sed, another search and replace loop method from the
command line with Cygwin.
For instance here is a Perl script that will work for most sentences:
First, let's assume that the entire file is in one scalar (using $/ =
undef to read it in). Second, assume that the beginning of a
sentence needing capitalization is reliably detectable using
/((?:^|[.?!]\s+)[a-z])/ ("Either the start of the string or a period,
question mark, or exclamation point followed by one or more
spaces, followed by a lower-case character").
Then, assuming your file text is in $text, you can just do
$text =~ s/((?:^|[.?!]\s+)[a-z])/\U$1/g;
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They also have some sophisticated Windows software for doing elaborate
search and replace. The easier kind tends to be expensive but there is
freeware also, which means reading the documentation.
I suppose you could run the first letter capitalization script on a document
that was in text. And then import into Lyx, the text by line, or paragraph,
whatever works best to texify. (X)Emacs can do this also but it still
requires quite a bit of reading, even if you get lucky and find an elisp
file already written to do what you want.
Regards, Stephen
