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Utility: Convert Title to Proper Title Case, Etc.

(Tested using IE6, IE7 and Firefox 3)

1. Click and then above to see an example of how two improperly capitalized titles are converted to proper title case.

2. After clicking , “Copy/Paste” a title from your text editor, word processor, or email message into the above text field.

3. Clicking will cause your title to be capitalized correctly.

4. Then “Copy/Paste” the corrected title back into your text editor, word processor, or email message.

Rules of Title Capitalization

1. The first and last words of the title are always capitalized.

2. “(,” “),” “[,” “],” “{” “},” “; ” (semicolon, space), “: ” (colon, space), and “ - ” (space, dash, space) are assumed to divide the title into separate titles.

3. In addition to letters and numbers, words may contain apostrophes (“'”), periods (“.”) and dashes (“-”).

4. Words may also contain foreign letters, such as “ý,” “æ,” “Õ,” “Û,” etc.

5. All other characters are considered “word boundary characters.”

6. Unless they are the first or last words of the title, 134 special words/phrases, such as “the,” “a,” “of,” etc., are not capitalized.

7. Except for the first letter of the 134 special words/phrases, upper case characters are left unchanged. This is so that “BB King,” for example, is not incorrectly converted to “Bb King,” and so that “Part III” is not incorrectly converted to “Part Iii,” etc. If this is not appropriate for your particular title, try clicking before clicking .

1. Click and then above to see an example of how the “rEVERSE CASE” button works.

2. The following is the JavaScript function which performs the case reversal. See if you can figure out how it works:
function ReverseCase() { tempUndoTXTBOX=GEBI('TXTBOX').value; GEBI('TXTBOX').value=tempUndoTXTBOX.replace(/./g,function(T1){var T2=T1.toLowerCase();return((T2==T1)?T1.toUpperCase():T2)}); saveUndoData(); }

NOTE: This web page was created using Notepad. Except for the background image file, the keyboard command JavaScript file, and the font / color data JavaScript file, it is completely self contained, and the absence of these three files will not cause any problems. Please feel free to save it to your hard drive using “File/Save as….” Double-click on the newly created “LLBest - Utility - Convert Title to Proper Title Case” icon (“TitleCase” icon for Firefox), and make it one of your “Favorites.” It will work perfectly even when you are no longer connected to the Internet, or, heaven forbid, when this web page is no longer available!

Questions, comments and suggestions are welcome.
Howard Charles Best ()

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