The Capitalizer BBEdit Extension:

What it is:

This is a little BBEdit extension that I wrote for myself, and I'm giving it away for free!  I used the sample extension called "Capitalize" that came with BBEdit, and made it a little more flexible.  Now it will handle more capitalization chores.

What it does:

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Have you ever wanted to change a whole block of text from uppercase to 
   
    lowercase?
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Have you ever wanted to quickly change a title to an appropriate title case?
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Have you ever needed to uppercase a bunch of words at once?

Have you?  And did you really want to re-type all that stuff yourself?  No?

Well then have I got an extension for you!

The Capitalizer will let you do all of that, and a little more!  Capitalizer is a utility that allows you to change the case of text in a selection in various ways.  You can change all selected text to:
    • UPPER CASE
    • lower case
    • Title Case
    • Sentence case.

If you’re like me, and I know I am, you’ll just love it!

What you do:

Frst you have to install the extension in BBEdit.  Do that by draging the "Capitalizer" extension to the 'Extensions' folder that is inside your BBEdit folder.  Now just start up BBEdit, and Capitalizer will work for you! 

NOTE:  You must quit BBEdit before installing any extension.  Otherwise BBEdit will not load it, and you won't be able to use it until the next time you launch BBEdit.

To use the utility all you do is select some text in BBEdit, then choose Capitalizer from the Extensions menu.  You will then get this dialog box:

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UPPER CASE:
    Choose this radio button to take any selected text and return it in all upper 
    case.
    i.e.: "Mars Needs Women."  becomes "MARS NEEDS WOMEN."

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lower case:
    Choose this radio button to take any selected text and return it in all 
    lowercase.  
    i.e.:"Mars Needs Women."  becomes "mars needs women."

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Sentence case:  (the default)
   Choose this radio button to take any selected text and capitalize the first 
   word of every sentence.  
   i.e.:  "Mars Needs Women."  becomes "Mars needs women."

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Title Case:
    Choose this radio button to take any selected text and capitalize every word.  
    This is handy for titles...
    i.e.:  "Mars needs women." becomes "Mars Needs Women."

See!  Easy!  If you do not have anything selected when you choose 'Capitalizer' it will simply beep at you, and your document will not be affected.

What you get:

If you downloaded the file "capitalizer-source.sea.hqx" you will get the 'Capitalizer' extension, this ReadMe file, and a folder containig the source code for Capitalizer as a Think C 8.0 project.  I tried to comment the code as much as possible, so it shouldn't be too hard to follow.

If you downloaded the file "capitalizer.sea.hqx"then you will get the 'Capitalizer' extension, and this ReadMe file.

Hey, whaddaya want for nothin'?

What you need:

To use this extension you will need a copy of BBEdit or BBEdit Lite.  You can get them at the following internet sites:

E-Mail:
    Internet: 
bbsw@netcom.com
    CIS: 
73051,3255
    AppleLink: 
BARE.BONES
    eWorld: 
BareBones

To ftp a demo:
    <ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/bbsw/bbedit-31-demo.hqx>
    <ftp://ftp.std.com/pub/bbedit/bbedit-31-demo.hqx>

And for those two of you out there who still aren’t on the web, here’s the old way of getting in touch with the BBEdit people:

    Bare Bones Software
    P.O. Box 108
    Bedford, MA 01730-0108

And of course, you need a Mac!  But you knew that, didn’t you?

What you owe:

Nothing!  Zero!  Zip!! NADA!  

It's my gift to you.  If you want to, you can send me some e-mail telling me if you like it or not, but that's it!

You can get in touch with me at

E-mail: rufus@ici.net
Web: http://www.ici.net/cust_pages/rufus/rufus.html

I will have a copy of this file available at the web site, as well.

Hope you find it useful!

             Rui Campos