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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
-