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RELEASE NOTES FOR SMARTCLIP
This is a utility of the 'one dumb job' variety. It does one job,
and does it fast and with minimal hoorah.
What does it do?
SmartClip a very small app that will do case conversion off of the
clipboard and return the converted text to the clipboard. This gives you
case conversion everywhere you can copy and paste. The conversions are
very smart, using the same logic used by my Torquemada the Inquisitor.
(For example, dîåçrítïcàls are handled correctly (e.g., DÎÅÇRÍTÏCÀLS).)
We don't clobber <Quark XPress tags> or <html> (or anything within angle
brackets). The software is also very careful in the vicinity of '@'
signs, also to preserve Quark XPress tags.
The case conversions are these:
CONVERT TO ALL CAPS
convert to all lower case
Convert to sentence caps.
Convert To Upstyle Caps
Convert to Downstyle Caps
Retain as plain text
WHOA! Change nothing!
The case conversions work as illustrated. Downstyle puts the first
letter of 1-, 2- and 3-letter words in lower case, as is used in some
headline styles. Sentence caps is pretty smart, but software is
necessarily inherently easy to fool, and, in any case, none of the
conversions take account of proper nouns. SmartClip will do 95% of your
work, but there is no substitute of the intervention of an active human
intelligence.
"Retain as plain text" unstyles text copied from applications with their
own internal clipboards. So, for example, you can copy styled text in
Quark XPress or Adobe Illustrator, SmartClip it, then paste it elsewhere
in the same document. When you do this, you will inherit the destination
text region's styling, not the source text's styling (this is easier to
do than to explain!).
Selecting "WHOA! Change nothing!" then hitting "Okay" does the same
thing as hitting "Cancel"--no change of any kind to the clipboard. It's
there for hand-holding purposes, that's all.
Tip: You should put a copy of SmartClip or an alias of it in your Apple
menu for easy access.
Quicker SmartClipping...
Included in the archive is a set of QuickKeys shortcuts called
"SmartClip Universal Shortcuts". These give you instant access to
SmartClip from any application. To use these shortcuts, follow these
steps:
1. Put a copy of SmartClip or an alias of it in your Apple menu.
2. Import the shortcuts into QuickKeys. Import into the "Universal" set,
because you want case conversion to be available from any application or
from the Finder.
3. Be sure to have text on the clipboard before you call one of the keys.
Nothing bad will happen if you don't, of course.
These are the Quickeys defined:
CTRL-SHIFT-C CONVERT TO ALL CAPS
CTRL-SHIFT-L convert to all lower case
CTRL-SHIFT-S Convert to sentence caps.
CTRL-SHIFT-U Convert To Upstyle Caps
CTRL-SHIFT-D Convert to Downstyle Caps
CTRL-SHIFT-P Retain as plain text
The keys don't Paste or CMD-V at the end of the sequence, so it's
up to you to do what you want after SmartClip and QuickKeys return
you to your application. And, of course, in most cases you can Undo
even after you Paste if you discover you've made a mistake.
Notes for nerds...
SmartClip is AppleEvent-aware, so you should be able to AppleScript
to it, should you want to. I know nothing about this, so you're on
your own, although the QuickKeys should provide a roadmap of how
to do what you might want to do.
About Greg Swann...
The files "About Greg Swann’s Utilities" and "About Greg Swann’s
Utils.HTML" provide volumes of information about me and my software, in
plain text and in html with live links, respectively. The important
information is this: If you need to contact me, I'm at:
gswann@kagi.com
or
gswann@mailhost.primenet.com
or
Greg Swann
3608 West Cochise Drive
Phoenix, AZ 85051
I'm in the process of updating everything I've ever written, but if you
download something of mine, it could have any one of five mailing
addresses. The Cochise Drive address above is the only one that will
assuredly get to me. Of course, I much prefer email where email will
suffice, and I've signed up as a kagi.com vendor, which should make
everything easier. For now, if you want to see what else I've done, go
to http://www.primenet.com/~gswann/software.html.
Best,
Greg Swann
8/1/98