On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 11:52:17 -0700
"Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> From: "Micha Feigin" <michf-+lLcF8/[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 12:49 PM
> Subject: Changing case of word
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> > 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.
>
Its actually in order to change a thesis class file I am using. The solution I
finally found was to set the variable with the capitalized version (Thesis) and
then when I need lower case I use \MakeLowercase.
> 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
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