Toggle capitalisation

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 14/10/2024 à 12:43, Jürgen Spitzmüller a écrit :
> Consider German, where you have a lot of in-word capitalization if you
> consider compounds. For instance, changing the (often wrongly spelled)
> word "ad-hoc-Aktion" to the orthographically correct "Ad-hoc-Aktion"
> would give you "Ad-hoc-aktion" which is of course plain wrong. I could
> select the a before issuing the function, but then, respelling it would
> arguably be faster.

Fair point. But it is not correct to have a lowercase "a" at the start 
of this word, right? This is more in the spellchecking use case than 
casing, IMO.

> It is well possible that Libre and MS don't get this right either
> (probably since they have an anglocentric concept of "a word"), but
> that does not mean that we shouldn't.
> 
> So why not offer an additional function?

You mean a pair of additional functions. One would need the version that 
lowercases the first letter.

How many times did you use this property of word-capitalize up to now?

JMarc