Looking for Title Case

Daniel Combs

Edit->Convert Case to->Title Case does not exist.

Edit->Convert Case to->Proper Case capitalizes the first letter in every word (all other letters are lowercase). Title case would set all letters to lowercase and capitalize the first letter in all words that are not articles, conjunctions, or prepositions (with the exception of the first word of the title).

Is there a plugin that will help?

Mark Olson

@Daniel-Combs
Probably the reason that this functionality is not in Notepad++ is that there are too many weird arbitrary rules, and different people will have different opinions about what constitutes proper “Title case”.

That said, here’s a PythonScript script that will do approximately what you’re looking for:

'''
====== SOURCE ======
Requires PythonScript (https://github.com/bruderstein/PythonScript/releases)
Based on this question: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/26037/looking-for-title-case
====== DESCRIPTION ======
Converts a document to title case, according to the following rules:
Let a "word" be any sequence of ASCII letters (a-z or A-Z) in the current document.
if any word is in WORDS_TO_LEAVE_LOWERCASE and is NOT at the start of a line:
    represent the word as all lowercase
otherwise:
    capitalize the word (the first letter is uppercase, and subsequent letters are lowercase)
====== EXAMPLE ======
Suppose you start with the document below, and WORDS_TO_LEAVE_LOWERCASE = {"a","an","and","as","at","but","by","for","if","in","nor","of","off","on","or","per","so","the","to","up","via","yet"}
===========
foo is BAR, not thE DOG who wouldn't and could've done bAz
the big man is very cool
so many titles, so little time
Words like b99 and Dog17bLAh are not affected, because they contain numbers
===========
You will end with
===========
Foo Is Bar, Not the Dog Who Wouldn't and Could've Done Baz
The Big Man Is Very Cool
So Many Titles, so Little Time
Words Like b99 and Dog17bLAh Are Not Affected, Because They Contain Numbers
===========
'''
from Npp import editor

# edit this list to customize which words you want to leave lowercase
WORDS_TO_LEAVE_LOWERCASE = {"a","an","and","as","at","but","by","for","if","in","nor","of","off","on","or","per","so","the","to","up","via","yet"}

def replace_func(m):
    word = m.group(2).lower()
    space_char = m.group(1)
    is_line_start = space_char and space_char in '\r\n'
    if word in WORDS_TO_LEAVE_LOWERCASE and not is_line_start:
        return word
    return word.capitalize()

editor.rereplace(r'(?i)(?:(?<=(\s))|\A)([a-z]+)\b', replace_func)

There is probably some kind of way to do this using pure Notepad++ regular expressions, but every regex I came up with was a monstrosity and also kept failing for reasons I couldn’t understand.

guy038

Hello, @daniel-combs, @mark-olson and All,

@daniel-combs, have also a look to this old post, below :

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/130/convert-case-to/4

Best Regards,

guy038