From: Barry Fishman <barry_fishman@acm.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proper English Title Capitalization
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 11:38:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m37frv2vsq.fsf@barry_fishman.acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2015-05-25T12-45-36@devnull.Karl-Voit.at
On 2015-05-25 12:47:51 +0200, Karl Voit wrote:
> * Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> wrote:
>>
>> My Elisp knowledge is sufficient to modify your code so that it
>> should get the job done:
>
> I have to post a corrected version of the code which also handles
> the edge case "a a a a a" (a do-not-capitalize word as second word)
> properly:
>
> ,----
> | (defun my-title-capitalization (beg end)
> | (interactive "r")
> | (save-excursion
> | (let (
> | (do-not-capitalize '("a" "ago" "an" "and" "as" "at" "but" "by" "for"
> | "from" "in" "into" "it" "next" "nor" "of" "off"
> | "on" "onto" "or" "over" "past" "so" "the" "till"
> | "to" "up" "yet" ))
> | )
> | ;; go to begin of first word:
> | (goto-char beg)
> | (forward-word)
> | (backward-word)
> | ;; capitalize first word in any case:
> | (capitalize-word 1)
> | (forward-word)
> | (backward-word)
> | (while (< (point) end)
> | ;; capitalize each word in between except it is list member:
> | (if (member (thing-at-point 'word t) do-not-capitalize)
> | (forward-word)
> | (capitalize-word 1) )
> | (forward-word)
> | (backward-word) )
> | ;; capitalize last word in any case:
> | (backward-word)
> | (capitalize-word 1)
> | )
> | ))
> `----
If you are looking for more alternative coding:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
;; This is probably subject for debate and tuning.
(defvar own-stop-words '("a" "an" "the" "at" "by" "for" "in"
"of" "on" "to" "up" "and" "as" "but"
"it" "or" "nor" "n" "t" "es" "s")
"Words that are not capitalized in titles.")
(defun own-title-region (beg end)
"Capitalize region as a title,"
(interactive "r")
(save-excursion
(goto-char beg)
(capitalize-word 1)
(while (< (point) end)
(skip-syntax-forward "^w" end)
(let ((word (thing-at-point 'word t)))
(if (stringp word)
(if (member (downcase word) own-stop-words)
(downcase-word 1)
(capitalize-word 1)))))
(backward-word 1)
(if (and (>= (point) beg)
(not (member (or (thing-at-point 'word t) "s")
'("n" "t" "es" "s"))))
(capitalize-word 1))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
--
Barry Fishman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-26 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-24 11:10 Proper English Title Capitalization Karl Voit
2015-05-24 21:00 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-25 10:13 ` Karl Voit
2015-05-25 10:36 ` Rasmus
2015-05-25 10:47 ` Karl Voit
2015-05-25 12:22 ` Karl Voit
2015-05-25 16:18 ` Rasmus
2015-05-26 15:38 ` Barry Fishman [this message]
2015-06-11 20:10 ` Karl Voit
2015-06-03 15:05 ` Karl Voit
2015-05-25 16:59 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-06-17 13:48 ` Karl Voit
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