capitalize some words in a region

capitalize some words in a region

[Uwe Brauer]

Hi, 

I would like to capitalize certain words in a region, but would like to
leave out  words like and/or for and of like in 


journal of mathematical physics

Should be turn into to 


Journal of Mathematical Physics

But not into 


Journal Of Mathematical Physics

Any idea how to do this?

Thanks 

Uwe Brauer 



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Re: capitalize some words in a region

[Emanuel Berg]

Uwe Brauer wrote:

> I would like to capitalize certain words in a region, but
> would like to leave out words like and/or for and of like in
>
> journal of mathematical physics
>
> Should be turn into to 
>
> Journal of Mathematical Physics
>
> But not into 
>
> Journal Of Mathematical Physics
>
> Any idea how to do this?

There was a guy who wrote some Elisp to do just that, it was
discussed on this very list but that's all I remember, maybe
you can find it by searching the archives

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs

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RE: [External] : Re: capitalize some words in a region

[Drew Adams]

> There was a guy who wrote some Elisp to do just that, it was
> discussed on this very list but that's all I remember, maybe
> you can find it by searching the archives

This guy, perhaps? ;-)

https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2019-04/msg00187.html

Re: [External] : Re: capitalize some words in a region

[Uwe Brauer]

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>>> "DA" == Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> There was a guy who wrote some Elisp to do just that, it was
>> discussed on this very list but that's all I remember, maybe
>> you can find it by searching the archives

> This guy, perhaps? ;-)

> https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2019-04/msg00187.html

Well I was not successful with my search in this list, however the 
following was very useful:

https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/26286/toggle-letter-case-exclude-custom-words-from-a-list


https://karl-voit.at/2015/05/25/elisp-title-capitalization/ 

And especially 
https://github.com/novoid/title-capitalization.el

Which turned out precisely what I was looking for.

Regards

Uwe Brauer 

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Re: [External] : Re: capitalize some words in a region

[Howard Melman]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

> Well I was not successful with my search in this list, however the 
> following was very useful:
>
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/26286/toggle-letter-case-exclude-custom-words-from-a-list
>
>
> https://karl-voit.at/2015/05/25/elisp-title-capitalization/ 
>
> And especially 
> https://github.com/novoid/title-capitalization.el
>
> Which turned out precisely what I was looking for.

See also: https://codeberg.org/acdw/titlecase.el

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Re: [External] : Re: capitalize some words in a region

[Uwe Brauer]

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> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:


> See also: https://codeberg.org/acdw/titlecase.el

Thanks, I will try this out as well, better to have too many than to few pkgs.😇
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Re: capitalize some words in a region

[Leo Butler]

On Fri, Sep 29 2023, Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> wrote:

> Hi, 
>
> I would like to capitalize certain words in a region, but would like to
> leave out  words like and/or for and of like in 
>
>
> journal of mathematical physics
>
> Should be turn into to 
>
>
> Journal of Mathematical Physics
>
> But not into 
>
>
> Journal Of Mathematical Physics
>
> Any idea how to do this?
>
> Thanks 
>
> Uwe Brauer 

The way that comes to mind is to capitalize the phrase and then go back,
with `case-fold-search' set to nil, and downcase the words you want
downcased by `replace-regexp':

M-x replace-regexp \b\(O[nN]\|O[fF]\|...\)\b RET \,(downcase \1) RET

If you do this enough, it seems like a good candidate for a keyboard macro.

HTH,
Leo