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phossler · 05-01-2016, 04:47 PM

@kovidgoyal

Thanks, I use that all the time to fix things like

Code:

<h1>CHAPTER 1 - THE BEGINNING</h1>

I was really looking to see if there is any automatic way to change paragraph leading upper case words to lower case

Code:

<body>

(before)

<p>ALLCAPS ALLCAPS ALLCAPS lower case  lower case  lower case  lower case  lower case </p>

(after)

<p>Allcaps allcaps allcaps lower case  lower case  lower case  lower case  lower case </p>

</body>

I did try using the Capitialize text function with a Find of <p[^>]*>.+?</p>

That works good for the ALLCAPS text I was using for a test, but it also gets applied to every paragraph.

I was thinking there might be some clever (i.e. beyond me) RegEx way to take the first whole word after a <p> and make it TitleCase, and then the (say) next 4 words and make them lowercase. Then stepping through with Find or Replace&Find would just be a lot easier

05-01-2016, 04:47 PM	#8
phossler Wizard Posts: 1,087 Karma: 447222 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Valley Forge, PA, USA Device: Kindle Paperwhite	@kovidgoyal Thanks, I use that all the time to fix things like Code: <h1>CHAPTER 1 - THE BEGINNING</h1> I was really looking to see if there is any automatic way to change paragraph leading upper case words to lower case Code: <body> (before) <p>ALLCAPS ALLCAPS ALLCAPS lower case lower case lower case lower case lower case </p> (after) <p>Allcaps allcaps allcaps lower case lower case lower case lower case lower case </p> </body> I did try using the Capitialize text function with a Find of <p[^>]*>.+?</p> That works good for the ALLCAPS text I was using for a test, but it also gets applied to every paragraph. I was thinking there might be some clever (i.e. beyond me) RegEx way to take the first whole word after a <p> and make it TitleCase, and then the (say) next 4 words and make them lowercase. Then stepping through with Find or Replace&Find would just be a lot easier