TitleCase shortcut and TOC

[phossler]

I had a epub with all the headings in UPPER CASE (drives me nuts)

Q1. Is there a way to convert all words in a <Hx> to Title Case using some kind of Find and Replace? The few LC exceptions ('the', 'a', etc. I can do manually)

Q2. I have Title Case on a shortcut key, but if I highlight text that has a tag in it, nothing happens. E.g. TOM<br/>DICK<br/>HARRY.

Q3. In a heading like TOM<br/>DICK<br/>HARRY, the tags are ignored when making a TOC, so that the TOC entry looks like TOMDICKHARRY

As a work-around, if I use TOM <br/>DICK <br/>HARRY (add space after) then the TOC is at least readable TOM DICK HARRY

Any workarounds?

I did try text-transform, but that didn't seem to do anything

h1 {
  font-family: sans-serif;
  page-break-before: always;
  page-break-after: avoid;
  text-indent: 0;
  text-align: center;
  margin-top: 2em;
  margin-bottom: 1em;
  font-size: 1.5em;
  font-weight: bold;
  font-style: normal;
  text-transform: capitalize;
}

[hobnail]

Q3: I use a space before the br. Although in my case it's a space before a span; in my CSS I have a selector/combinator that puts what's in the span on a separate line when it's in a header.

Q1: Yes, look in the thread on regex / regular expressions. Or search on the web.

[kovidgoyal]

https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/function_mode.html

[phossler]

Well, that was embarrassing --

Not only was it in the manual, but I had saved it as a Search a long time ago

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by phossler

Well, that was embarrassing --

Not only was it in the manual, but I had saved it as a Search a long time ago

Mind posting your search solution in case anyone else wants the answer?

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Mind posting your search solution in case anyone else wants the answer?

Jon, as the OP said, changing the header to title case is a sample solution in the FAQ.


Automatically fixing the case of headings in the document

Here, we will leverage one of the builtin functions in the editor to automatically change the case of all text inside heading tags to title case:

Find expression: <([Hh][1-6])[^>]*>.+?</\1>

For the function, simply choose the Title-case text (ignore tags) builtin function. The will change titles that look like: <h1>some TITLE</h1> to <h1>Some Title</h1>. It will work even if there are other HTML tags inside the heading tags.

[phossler]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Mind posting your search solution in case anyone else wants the answer?

As Kovid said

https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/function_mode.html

[phossler]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/function_mode.html

@KG --

Any chance of having

Q2. the TitleCase shortcut key work even if there are some tags in the selected text by just ignoring the tags?

Q3. the TOC 'honor' any tags in the headings, normally <br/>?

[kovidgoyal]

Not sure what you mean by (1) and for (2) no toc entries are always single line of plain text

[phossler]

(1) if I highlight text that has a tag in it, and select the text and choose TitleCase, nothing happens. E.g. TOM<br/>DICK<br/>HARRY doesn't get turned into Tom<br/>Dick<br/>Harry<br/>

(2) In a heading like TOM<br/>DICK<br/>HARRY, the tags are ignored when making a TOC, so that the TOC entry looks like TOMDICKHARRY

I don't understand how your TitleCase works for (1), but it would seem to me (obviously just my opinion) that (2) requiring all TOC entries to be a single line can be limiting. Maybe just transforming tags in a space?

[kovidgoyal]

(1) has nothing to do with tags, but rather that all upper case words are assumed to be acronyms. lower case them first then titlecase them. And you should insert spaces before each <br> as well, which will take care of (2) for you as well.

[phossler]

Ahh --

1. I didn't realize the acronyms part

2. I had just assumed that tags, etc. would be treated as white space and I wouldn't have to force the extraneous space in to get the formatting to work

Thanks for the explanation

[theducks]

I always put a space BEFORE the <br /> for a clean looking TOC entry whe I use H# tags to generate from multi-line headings

I never knew WHY all case tools I have ever used (inc DOS apps), would never mix case an upper only word (I knew I had to first lower).
Kovid makes perfect sense.

[phossler]

Hmmm - it seems that putting a space AFTER each <br/> is more reliable

Doing it that way, if you make UPPER CASE with br/'s into lower case and then into Title Case, it works and you end with TitleCase. The TOC is also correct.

Sort of appears to me that it treats UPPER+<br/>+space as a word but not space+<br/>+UPPER as a word

[theducks]

Space After
Staggers the Viewed text

Line One

Line Two

(exaggerated)