Book capitalization, not “initial caps:” “the” not “The”

[Doug Parker]

In MacOS, how can BBE be programmed to do book caps, not initial caps? For example, small words get omitted, like

• a

• an

• and

• the

Or, is there a way to add a service so it book caps?

Oh, yeah, and there needs to be an option for *which words to omit,* since it's language-oriented and there'll be thousands of ways to choose. 

Thanks.

DP, Henderson, NV, USA

[Bruce Van Allen]

Isn’t that “Title Case” in BBEdit’s Text -> Change Case options?

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[Doug Parker]

I'm embarrassed to say yes it is. Thank you. 

MacOS has a change case that does initial cap only. Now that I know that BBEdit has what I want, I can get to installing its Title Case Capitalization as a service in other places and other applications on the Mac. 

Doug

[Doug Parker]

As you probably already know, yes, it is. Thank you.

MacOS has a change to title case, but it's an initial cap, and all words get capitalized. Now that I know that BBEdit has the capitalization that I want, I can install it as a service in other locations and in other apps within macOS.

On Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 12:11:31 PM UTC-8 Bruce Van Allen wrote:

[Kaveh Bazargan]

So it has a list of words like "the" etc that stay as lower case even in Title case? It if makes you feel better, Doug, I did not know that either!! Every day something new with BBEdit! 

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[Doug Parker]

Like anything language related, there will always be multiple ways to standardize it. 

• Title case

• Initial cap

• Book case

• Proper capitalization

and so on. Choose your poison. “Title case” and “Initial cap” sometimes are defined as the same thing, but being an armchair editor-type, my seeing the word “And” capitalized in a sentence really makes me tilt my head like a puppy. I introduced the phrase “Book case” to address the need for some of the words to remain lowercase, but then if you go to capitalizemytitle.com, you'll see nine different ways of defining which words get capitalized or not in any given title, "APA, Chicago, AP, MLA, BB, AMA, NYT, Wiki, and Email." 

The nice thing about standards is there are so many of them! as they say. 

I went down MacOS's Services rabbit hole, looking to see if there were any way to make BBEdit's Title Case available to Chrome, but it doesn't look like that's going to be a possibility. My thought was

1. Open BBEdit

2. Find the Title Case service

3. Enable or export it somehow, making it available to other apps

4. Go to Chrome

5. Open Chrome Services menu

6. Capture or import BBEdit's Title Case service

and thus make BBEdit's Title Case available to anything I have highlighted in Chrome's interface, but… it's not working. Someone smarter than me is going to have to step in and hold my hand. :-Z

Doug