what regular expression

Hi Pierre:

REGEX does have an option to change case, but FrameMaker doesn’t support it (yet). It would make a great feature request.

Here’s an expression that works in InDesign (and in the free text editor Notepad++) but FrameMaker doesn’t understand the \L to designate lowercase. This is an InDesign recording.

Find: 

\b([A-Z]?)(\w+)

Change:

$1\L$2

Frustrating, but here we are. It does look to me like you are still setting up so if the text isn’t in FrameMaker yet you could download the free Notepad++ and run the REGEX shown above or even fix it in Word.

     Word doesn’t support REGEX but it supports wildcards and it could be handled as shown below prior to importing the text into FrameMaker:

• Ctrl+H to open Find & Replace
• Click the Find Tab
• Find (all words with at least two consecutive uppercase letters):

• [A-Z]{2,}

• Wildcards enabled
• Find in Document (highlights all upper case text)
• Close Find & Replace dialog box (words remain highlighted)
• Click the Change Case button on the Home Ribbon and choose Capitalize Each Word

~Barb

This can’t be done with just a regular expression. You would need an ExtendScript script to do this.

Your blue arrow is pointing to initial caps - so all your uppercase JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH would change to Johann Sebastian Bach - is that what you’re asking to do? If so, you don’t need a regular expression to accomplish that.