find uppercase - change in lower

[vladan saveljic]

Hello to all,

i have bibliography which contains lot of names in uppercase.

Is there a script or grep to find all these words and change them in lowercase living only first letter in uppercase?

e.g.: MARC TWAIN > Marc Twain; G. ORSON WELLES > G. Orson Welles

I can find uppercase with grep "\u+" but I can't change them in lower case.

Thank you in advance

[Johnwhite]

HI,

Take a look of this link:

Script to replace small caps that are typed as capital letters with non-capital letters (A => a, ...

the script made by Chinna

may be you can find what you want

John

[Johnwhite]

if the script is what you want

can you give Chinna a correct,

don't give me, please

john

[vladan saveljic]

hello Johnwhite,

thank you for your answer.

I wrote a word in uppercase, in one new document, and I tried the script but nothing happens (i have indesign cs6, mac os x 10.6.8).

Probably I do something wrong

Thank you anyway

[Sajeev Sridharan]

Please update your word in the array list, it will do the rest.

var array = ["MARC TWAIN", "ORSON WELLES"];//update your word here

Vandy

[vladan saveljic]

Hi vandy88,

I think I would lose a lot of time to put all the names in the script.

This is not a list of names but bibliography.

Thank you a lot anyway

[Sajeev Sridharan]

Hope this will help you...

var array = ["MARC TWAIN", "ORSON WELLES"];

for(var j=0; j<array.length; j++)

{

    app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;

    app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = array;

    finds = app.documents[0].findGrep();

    for(var i=0;i<finds.length;i++){

        finds.texts[0].changecase(ChangecaseMode.titlecase);

    }

    app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;

}

Vandy

[vladan saveljic]

Hello vandy88,

the names I wrote before (MARC TWAIN, ORSON WELLES) was only example.

In my document there are a hundreds different names that I should change to lower case

Thank you

[Sajeev Sridharan]

Try this,

   app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;

    app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "\\u+";

    finds = app.documents[0].findGrep();

    for(var i=0;i<finds.length;i++){

        finds.texts[0].changecase(ChangecaseMode.titlecase);

    }

    app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;

[vladan saveljic]

Hi vandy88,

now your script is very good!

Could you make it work for just the selected text?

Thank you a lot

[Sajeev Sridharan · Accepted solution]

Try this,

   app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;

    app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "\\u+";

    finds = app.selection[0].findGrep();

    for(var i=0;i<finds.length;i++){

        finds.texts[0].changecase(ChangecaseMode.titlecase);

    }

    app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;

[Sajeev Sridharan]

Hi premio_oscar,

script is working or not ?

if yes, mark as correct answer...

Vandy

[vladan saveljic]

Hello vandy88

forgive me, I could not see before your answer.

Now I tried the script and it's great.

Thank you a lot!

[Karel Prokes]

how do I use that script you have sent @Johnwhite ? 

I need find uppercase and replace to lowercase.. 

Indesign CC

Many thanks!

Kind Regards

Karel

[Laubender]

Hi Karel,

the link in the reply of Johnwhite is not working anymore. Initially it linked to a thread in the old InDesign or InDesign Scripting Forum. Unfortunately that thread was not moved to this forum last year when the forum software switched from Jive to Khoros.

Instead you may look into this script by Peter Kahrel:

Change case

InDesign's GREP is powerful, but one feature it lacks is case conversion: you can't change the case of what your GREP expression matches. But this can be remedied by a script that acts as a kind of extension to the Find/Change dialog. …

https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/grep_change_case.html

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

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