[AWOL] Context menu: Alter title text case

[Sabardeyn]

Awhile back I got a new computer, installed calibre, and started my library from scratch. I re-installed all the plugins I remembered using and set things up as best I recalled.

With one exception.

I remember that there was a fly-out submenu when right clicking on a book title that would offer the various text case options: switch to lowercase, switch to UPPERCASE, switch to Title Case, etc.

I vaguely recall that this was something that I had to manually add/tell calibre to include on the context menu but I cannot recall what/where/how. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Any help would be appreciated.

[kovidgoyal]

It is still there, right click on the field and select "Change Case"

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Sabardeyn

Awhile back I got a new computer, installed calibre, and started my library from scratch. I re-installed all the plugins I remembered using and set things up as best I recalled.

With one exception.

I remember that there was a fly-out submenu when right clicking on a book title that would offer the various text case options: switch to lowercase, switch to UPPERCASE, switch to Title Case, etc.

I vaguely recall that this was something that I had to manually add/tell calibre to include on the context menu but I cannot recall what/where/how. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Any help would be appreciated.

If in the spreadsheet view: did you put the field in edit mode (F2 or double-click) first?

[Sabardeyn]

I'm in standard table view but I have no Change Case option on the context menu clicking on the Title. See attached screenshot. This is on v1.38.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by Sabardeyn

I'm in standard table view but I have no Change Case option on the context menu clicking on the Title. See attached screenshot. This is on v1.38.

As theducks said -- you are not in edit mode. In edit mode you do not get the context menu, you get the editing right-click menu with things like standard cut/copy/paste, undo/redo, Select All, and ... <drumroll> ... Change Case.

[Sabardeyn]

Sorry, I misread him to be saying don't use Edit Mode - what I get for reading quickly.

Anyway, I used to highlight several books, randomly as needed, and then Change Case>Title Case. Mostly because I would find case errors in clumps - but always while I was doing some other edits. Now, instead of doing what amounted to a bulk edit in two mouse clicks, I'll have to go the long way round (Edit Metadata in Bulk).

I haven't been editing metadata for the last couple months, so obviously this got changed sometime during my hiatus.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Sabardeyn

Sorry, I misread him to be saying don't use Edit Mode - what I get for reading quickly.

Anyway, I used to highlight several books, randomly as needed, and then Change Case>Title Case. Mostly because I would find case errors in clumps - but always while I was doing some other edits. Now, instead of doing what amounted to a bulk edit in two mouse clicks, I'll have to go the long way round (Edit Metadata in Bulk).

I haven't been editing metadata for the last couple months, so obviously this got changed sometime during my hiatus.

for several books, you must use Bulk mode.
With multi-select, there is no way to specify which FIELD an edit (option) would apply, which is why a edit context could never appear.

Note: you can us the change case anywhere in the Tab Browser that has a rename context active. Title is the one field that does NOT appear in the tag browser

[Sabardeyn]

Originally Posted by theducks

With multi-select, there is no way to specify which FIELD an edit (option) would apply, which is why a edit context could never appear.

Well it used to work. /pout

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Sabardeyn

Well it used to work. /pout

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. Oliver Cromwell - In a letter to the general assembly of the Church of Scotland (August 3, 1650)

Elsewise QED, s’il vous plaît ==>> Previous calibre releases

BR