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btrott

Apr 6 2002, 10:00 AM

There are global tag attributes for lower case and upper case, but none for first-letter-of-each-word-case. We could add one, but in the meantime you might want to see if there is a CSS declaration you could use for text-transform.

buhlogged

May 14 2002, 03:48 AM

You could add this to Util.pm at lib/Mt/:

CODE

sub title_case {
my($text) = @_;
$text =~ tr!A-Z!a-z!;
$text =~ s!^(\W*?)(\w)!$1.uc($2)!ge;
$text =~ s!(\W)(\w)!$1.uc($2)!ge;
$text =~ s!\b(i+v*)\b!uc($1)!gei;
$text;
}

and add title_case to the @EXPORT_OK variables (line 14 or thereabouts). Save and upload.

Open Context.pm (at lib/MT/Template/) and add title_case to the use MT::Util variables (line 9). Then in sub post_process_handler add this:

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if ($args->{'title_case'}) {
$str = title_case($str);
}

Save and upload.

So in your templates you do it like:

CODE

<$MTEntryTitle title_case="1"$>

This can also be useful for the MTAuthor tags.

Hope this helps.

Rebel Soul

Apr 6 2002, 08:00 AM

Is there a way to automatically force the title of an entry into a Title Case with a tag?

Eg "ENTRY TITLE" to show as "Entry Title" ?

Reason: I'll be copying and pasting subjects a lot and it would be handy if this was automatic so I don't have to edit the case each time to fit in with the other posts.

Thanks. :)

kadyellebee

Apr 6 2002, 10:10 AM

Easiest CSS way to do this is add the following to the .title class :

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text-transform : capitalize;

Kristine

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