Our TOCs pull headings from the document that are in all caps, but we don't want the TOC entries to be in all caps. I've seen examples of grep styles that can apply a character style to make letters capitalized, but I don't think I've seen the opposite. Is it possible?
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Although there is an attribute style called lowercase, in a sense, there is no such thing as the opposite as a style or attribute because InDesign cannot read and know when a word should be capitalized. But you can Find/Change Heading text to be typed (a new addition called Change Case) in Sentence Case, or Title Case, or lowercase. Next, the Heading style could be edited to apply the appearance of all caps. This basically gets you back to where you were before, except that it is now built corre
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Create a lower case character style and then use that as a nested style.
None through one character, lower case through a space. Repeat that as many times as you need to cover the full heading.
Edit: Characters and letters will both work here.
Thanks Mike. But, in this case, it turns out that there is the opposite of all-caps: "Lowercase." It's just missing from the Character properties section of the Properties tab, which does show all-caps.
Way back in the day, Dave Saunders wrote a smart title case script. Maybe someone has it filed away somewhere.
By @BobLevine
Ask and ye shall receive:
//DESCRIPTION: Converts selected text to title case smartly
// Customize this script by either editing these arrays:
var ignoreWords = ["a","and","the","to","with","in","on","as","of","or","at","is","into","by","from", "their", "then", "for"];
var intCaps = ["PineRidge","InDesign","NJ","UMC", "FCCLA", "SkillsUSA", "d’Oeuvres"];
// or by creating text files named ignoreWords.txt and intCaps.txt in the script's folder
ignoreWords = getIgnoreFile(ignoreWords);
intCaps = getIntCaps(intCaps);
try {
myText = app.selection[0].texts[0].contents;
} catch(e) {
exit();
}
theWordRanges = myText.split("/");
for (var i = theWordRanges.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
theWords = theWordRanges[i].toLowerCase().split(" ");
//First word must have a cap, but might have an internal cap
myNewText = "";
for (var j = 0; theWords.length > j; j++) {
k = isIn(intCaps,theWords[j])
if (k > -1) {
myNewText = myNewText + intCaps[k] + " ";
continue;
} else {
if ((isIn(ignoreWords,theWords[j]) > -1) && (j != 0)) {
myNewText = myNewText + theWords[j] + " ";
} else {
myNewText = myNewText + InitCap(theWords[j]) + " ";
}
}
}
theWordRanges[i] = myNewText.substring(0,myNewText.length - 1)
}
app.selection[0].texts[0].contents = theWordRanges.join("/");
// +++++++ Functions Start Here +++++++++++++++++++++++
function getIgnoreFile(theWords) {
var myFile = File(File(getScriptPath()).parent.fsName + "/ignoreWords.txt");
if (!myFile.exists) { return theWords }
// File exists, so use it instead
myFile.open("r");
var importedWords = myFile.read();
myFile.close();
return importedWords.split("\n"); // Could filter these, but what's the point?
}
function getIntCaps(theWords) {
var myFile = File(File(getScriptPath()).parent.fsName + "/intCaps.txt");
if (!myFile.exists) { return theWords }
// File exists, so use it instead
myFile.open("r");
var importedWords = myFile.read();
myFile.close();
return importedWords.split("\n"); // Could filter these, but what's the point?
}
function getScriptPath() {
// This function returns the path to the active script, even when running ESTK
try {
return app.activeScript;
} catch(e) {
return e.fileName;
}
}
function isIn(aList,aWord) {
for (var i = 0; aList.length > i; i++) {
if (aList[i].toLowerCase() == aWord) {
return i;
}
}
return -1;
}
function InitCap(aWord) {
if (aWord.length == 1) {
return (aWord.toUpperCase());
}
return (aWord.substr(0,1).toUpperCase() + aWord.substring(1,aWord.length))
}
With apologies to Dave if I shouldn't be posting this. Let Bob know and he can remove it.
No idea if it will run in a current version, but it might run if put in the correct Version X.0 subfolder. Date on the file I have is 2006.
I've had trouble upvoting a post (not my own) right after I posted a reply. I find if I wait a minute and go back to the page, I can upvote. My unoficial thought is that the system needs a little time to cycle.
By @Dave Creamer of IDEAS
Yeah it's a known issue that affects some threads seemingly at random. One of Adobe reps said they were looking into this some time ago.
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