Sigil Regex Title case

[jcambaya]

Hi Everyone,

Is there a regex that can convert text into Title case in sigil?

From:
<h2>CHAPTER III. LEARNING THE "REGEX" AND MORE</h2>

into:
<h2>Chapter III. Learning the "Regex" and More</h2>

I tried \L \l \U and \u but not working. What is the Regex for doing so?

Thanks!

[Turtle91]

I don't think there is one in Sigil. The best I've come up with is <h2>\L\1\E</h2> which puts them all in lowercase, then you can do multiple cycles of <h2>(.*?) ([a-z])(.*?)</h2> to <h2>\1 \u\2\3</h2>.

It's not perfect, it will miss things like ", III, the, and unless you specifically code for them. I've found it is overall faster if you do the first step for all lowercase, then just manually highlight and use the Ab button.

The better answer is to use Calibre's Book Editor. They have Regex functions that will do that built in.

The BEST answer is to get one of our enterprising coders to get regex functions for Sigil...

[MickiTee]

You could have a look at the sticky thread Regex Examples (https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=167971) in this forum.

I'm reasonably sure that there are a number of posts relating to this as I think I used this to create a saved search to change uppercase to title for a single word.
Also there is an example in the saved Clips for this.

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by jcambaya

Is there a regex that can convert text into Title case in sigil?

This simple regex will transform upper case words to title case words:

Find:([[:upper:]])([[:upper:]]{2,})
Replace:\1\L\2\E

For more examples, see this old post.