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From: "William T. Flight" <>
Subject: RE: [GENBOX] Sources - Capitalization (fixed)
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 11:03:12 -0400
In-Reply-To: <CHEMKKAJHOKJPIEOPLKDEEKFFBAA.clcasper@sprynet.com>


Hi Cheri,

Genbox was doing two things wrong with your example:

First, it wasn't recognizing "No." as an abbreviation. Instead, it was
considering this a sentence-terminating period, which prepared it to
capitalize the next word.

Second, it wasn't resetting this "capitalize the next word" setting when it
discovers that [DOC LOCATOR] is empty. The conditional portion was skipped
but the next word was still capitalized.

I have both of these problems corrected in 3.1.13. All capitalized words of
three characters or less that end in a period are now considered an
abbreviation. This means the automatic capitalization of the next word may
not happen in some cases where it should, but it is easy to capitalize the
data field value instead.

Best regards,

--Bill

William T. Flight
http://www.thoughtfulcreations.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cheri Casper [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 6:00 PM
> To:
> Subject: [GENBOX] Sources - Capitalization
>
>
> Paul, Bill, et al. - I believe that in addition to weird
> punctuation in
> sources that it has also been mentioned with regard to
> capitalization. In
> using a source for making a copy, I am seeing similar results. The
> formatting is
>
> <[DOC SUBJECT] marriage bond, affidavit, license, and
> certificate of time
> and place of marriage><, [DOC DATE],>< [DOC TITLE]><,
> application No. [DOC
> LOCATER]><, microfilm [DOC QUALIFIER],><, [REPOSITORY],
> [REPOSITORY CITY]>
> (hereinafter [DOC SHORT TITLE]).
>
> When the toggle is envoked, I get this:
>
> <[LEAD TEXT]><[EXCERPT]>L. R. Anderson and Annie Belle
> Derrington marriage
> bond, affidavit, license, and certificate of time and place
> of marriage, 21
> June 1919, Graves County, Kentucky, Marriage Registers
> 1915-1920, Microfilm
> 1914939, Family History Library [FHL], Salt Lake City (hereinafter
> Anderson-Derrington marriage records). <[ANNOTATION].>
>
> Note that the word "microfilm" is being capitalized when it
> should not be.
> I even moved the word itself out of the formatting and put it
> in the Doc
> Qualifer along with the number (i.e., microfilm 1914939) and
> this still
> generates with the word being capitalized.
>
> Seems that something is not functioning like it should here and these
> capitals seem to be interjected for some reason.
>
> Cheri


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