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Capitalise words via paragraph styles?

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Hello.

I create a lot menus which require Each Word To Begin With A Capital.

Now I can see to do that in type>case

However in pragraph styles, I only see options for small caps or all caps. Is there not a way to make this part of a pragraph style so I don't have to go through the menus for the hundreds of food items I will have?

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You've probably solved your problem by now but incase you haven't here is a crib sheet I made for myself on this specific use of GREPs when faced with a similar problem. If it's not clear then let me know and I will send you a better quality version

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thedude1981

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Jongware,

Your solution "'([sdt]|ve)\b" works perfectly. Thank you very much!

I'm so happy to have found this forum. This will save me so much time!

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Jongware

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Dude, see my belated follow-up above if your typesetting up to specs (i.e., using your curly quotes correctly).

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thedude1981

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I'm not sure I know what you mean by using curly quotes correctly in my typesetting.

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thedude1981

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Jongware, This is what I used.

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Jongware

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Hmmm ... apparently the apostrophe is picked up by the top expression as a "word break" character.

Short solution: add another GREP "'s\b" (that's Apostrophe S, followed by yet another word break) and apply the style "Normal" for this as well. It needs a word break after the "s" so the esses in "'seven' 'silly' 'strumpets'" will still be capitalized.

If you'd want to include (= EXclude) other contractions as well (don't, I'd, I've -- any more?) you can add them one at a time, as above, or all at once:

'([sdt]|ve)\b

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Jongware

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Oh scratch that. I was finally going to make dinner, but let me add this:

If you are conscious about using your Curly Quotes, it ought to be enough to re-Normalize the lower case character right after a single curly close quote:

~]\l

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thedude1981

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OK, so I followed the directions above and got my faux Title Case in my Paragraph Style. Works very well, so thanks to you all for the GREP info.

One hiccup so far - when using a title with a possessive noun "Library's Computer", it capitalizes the S after the apostrophe so it's instead "Library'S Computer".

Is there any way to remedy that?

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Jongware

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Which of the (extremely varied) methods/script/GREP queries did you use?

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b_pashleyCorrect answer

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You've probably solved your problem by now but incase you haven't here is a crib sheet I made for myself on this specific use of GREPs when faced with a similar problem. If it's not clear then let me know and I will send you a better quality version

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GarethiAuthor

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Wow thanks for this guys, so not only is it possible but I can ignore 'and' 'the' etc which was something I assumed could not be done.

Now just to learn how to use grep!

What does it mean Grep?

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Jongware

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You don't have to learn it right now, the posts above are ready-to-go.

It's usually explained mean "Generalized Regular Expression Parser", but you don't have to memorize that, as everyone who knows it just calls it "grep".

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