[bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing capitals at the beginning of sentences
- From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:01:05 -0500
Thanks, Lori, just a thought.
Evan
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From: "Lori" <lori@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 6:36 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing capitals at the beginning of sentences
Evan,
I thought about that too as formality in writing does not seem to be the
norm these days, but I have not found any rime or reason and it is
sporadic not consistent.
Lori
----- Original Message -----
From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 6:23 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing capitals at the beginning of
sentences
Are you certain that it is not intensional? Is there a pattern to the
noncapitalization or not? I've scanned two books recently in which, at
the beginnings of chapters and at the beginnings of sections after a
blank line, the first three words of the sentence--even if it contained a
proper name--were in lower-case. Even the titles of chapters were all in
lower-case.
Evan
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From: "Lori" <lori@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 4:03 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Missing capitals at the beginning of sentences
Hi all,
I'm proofing a book that periodically has sections of text that the
capital letters are missing at the beginning of sentences and proper
names. The letter is there, just the wrong case. So, I can catch the
proper names with spell-check or search and replace making sure to check
case. I am wondering about the best way to handle the first letter of
sentences.
I was thinking that I could perform a find and replace using a
punctuation mark space and then each letter of the alphabet with care to
make sure the check case option is checked. I know I'll have to do all
ending punctuation as well as the punctuation and then a closing quote.
Spell-check seems to be catching the instances like i'm or i'll where i
is not capitalized.
Any other ideas?
Lori
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