Title Case question

[Beth Coale]

Hi! Looking for assistance with applying Title Case (Ctrl Shft T). Is this a known issue?

I am working in Version 8.0.13.

The following is from p. 145 of the current User's Guide: 

(and from "What's New in SI Pro 8.0" : "The Title Case formatting command now uses a title case algorithm instead of the ignored words list to determine which words are capitalized and those that are not." )

Title Case

This function changes the first letter of each word of the selected text to uppercase. Any words in the Ignored Words list (such as ‘of’) will not be capitalized.

Keyboard Shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+T

Notes

This function will only convert case from lower to upper. It will not convert from upper to lower (accept those words in the ignored words list) in order to avoid lowercasing words that should be in upper case such as acronyms. If you are trying to change text that is in all upper case to Title case, first use the Lower Case function and then the Title Case function. Creating a macro might be useful if you need to do a lot of this.

Note about all Functions that Change Case Based on Words

SKY Index considers a space and the following characters to be word delimiters:

.    period

(    left parenthesis

[    left bracket

{    left curly brace

@ commercial at sign

"    straight quote

'    apostrophe

“    beginning double quote

‘    beginning single quote

-    hyphen

However, this function is acting quite different than described:

1) ALL acronyms are changed (example: WNADA changes to Wnada)

2)  ALL hyphenated words are changed (examples: Out-of-State changes to Out-of-state, High-Rise changes to High-rise, etc. AND To-Go changes to to-go despite having been entered as correctly capitalized, I assume because "to" is on the ignored words list)

3) Even some words that are NOT on the ignored list are changed to lowercase (examples: Per is changed to per, Without is changed to without, Against is changed to against, etc.)

ANY help would be greatly appreciated!! TIA!

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-Beth Coale

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[Deborah Patton]

Wellll.... I think lots of us have gotten singed with this one. 

Title Case can be helpful, but I know I use it sparingly most likely because of issues that have frustrated you like words on the ignored list, acronyms, and hyphenated words. 

What I finally decided was it was designed this way, but it doesn't always meet my needs although sometimes it does.

Something that may help is Ctrl+Z which is the undo function. It has several layers (I forget how many) and it really works. That acronym that became mostly lower case -- Ctrl+Z will set it to rights. I use Ctrl+Z when I consume subheadings and realize I counted wrong and need them. You just have to do it immediately after you do something since it's keystroke based. Ctrl+Z won't fix something we did yesterday or even an hour ago if we kept working.

SKY is mostly wonderful, but there are aspects of it that are just going to be like that. 

Deborah

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[beth....@gmail.com]

Hmmm... then the detailed description in the User's Guide of what Title Cases (Ctrl Shft T) does and does not do is maybe something to be corrected or removed, and it should be removed from the website's list of "What's New."

Is it possible that the programmers are not aware that the algorithm that was added to eliminate those problems is not working as it should? Has anyone contacted them about this?

This is not an intermittent or random problem but consistently does exactly what the Guide specifically says it will NOT do -- changing existing uppercase to lower. The User's Guide even specifically provides instruction for what to do if you need to change text in all-caps to title case.

I also find that Ctrl-Z un-does many things, but it does NOT undo Ctrl-Shft-T.