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Subject: Re: [office-comment] ODF-Next -- Text Case Attributes, Please


Paul,

unless I have misunderstood your description, ODF's already existing 
fo:text-transform attribute seems to be what you are looking for.

Michael

On 07/02/09 14:33, marbux wrote:
> Use Case 1
> 
> A user creates a lengthy document in outline format, marking section
> headings to be included in the table of contents. The user creates a
> style that marks headings with text attributes to appear in all caps
> case in the body of the document. The user creates a table of contents
> entry style that applies initial caps case to the same heading titles
> when they are copied to the table of contents.
> 
> Use Case 2
> 
> Law office staff create a document to be filed with the court. The
> document title appears in three places. The document title is embedded
> in a style. In the case caption of the document, staff wrap the title
> style in All Caps attributes. In the footer, staff wrap the title
> style in Initial Caps and Small Caps attributes. In the Certificate of
> Service, staff wraps the style in Initial Caps and Boldface
> attributes.
> 
> Use Case 3
> 
> Same as Use Case 1 and Use Case 2 except that the headings and
> document title contain acronyms which must remain in all caps case and
> proper nouns whose first characters must remain capitalized despite
> case attributes otherwise applied to the entirety of the strings. The
> user applies a "Keep Caps" attribute to the acronyms and proper noun
> initial characters that prevent them from being rendered in other than
> All Caps case.
> 
> Discussion
> 
> The absence of text case attributes in word processing formats has
> been a pain in users' backsides for a very long time. Major word
> processors provide tools for converting case but do not provide the
> means of converting case in real time through the use of case
> attributes.
> 
> The result is that users are routinely required: [i] to enter the same
> text repeatedly using different cases rather than parking repetitive
> text in styles that would reduce the potential for inconsistent
> occurrences of what should be the same string; [ii] to manually review
> and convert case in tables of contents with every successive draft
> that must undergo review, correcting case errors created by the case
> conversion routines; [iii] to forego the potential advantage of styles
> that could be wrapped in case attributes; [iv] to forego using text
> case sensibly, e.g., by producing tables of contents in butt-ugly All
> Caps case; and most seriously  [iv] to waste valuable time with
> repetitive tasks that could be eliminated through automation using
> case attributes.
> 
> For example, a skilled word processor user could easily build a
> vocabulary of commonly-used acronyms and proper nouns marked up with
> the Keep Caps attribute and stored in the word processor's automatic
> abbreviation expansion system. Likewise, proper nouns that appear in a
> spellchecker's word list could have the Keep Caps attribute
> automatically applied to their first character. Software routines that
> automatically extract from documents copies of strings marked with
> Keep Caps attributes could be developed that automatically store such
> strings in the abbreviation expansion tool's data store.
> 
> As a retired member of the legal profession, I cannot tell you how
> many hours of my career were spent coping with such text case issues.
> But it was surely in the high hundreds if not thousands of hours. And
> of course the legal profession is not the only profession that must
> routinely produce documents with tables of contents. Multiply that
> productivity hit times the number of users with similar experience and
> it's an area where a more automated approach is long overdue.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Paul E. Merrell, J.D. (Marbux)
> 


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