[texhax] intelligent title capitalization?

[Mike B.]

Thanks for replying.

Usually the publisher's rule is to capitalize all proper words (nouns, verbs etc.) so potentially there could a list of all words not to capitalize (something like a dictionary aspell uses), for example: at, to, from, the and so on.
So everyhting gets capitalized unless in that "blacklist".
Of course, there will always be singular cases, like the one you've mentioned, which would require manual tweaking.

Cheers,
Mike.

--- On Tue, 15/3/11, Uwe Lueck <uwe.lueck at web.de> wrote:

> From: Uwe Lueck <uwe.lueck at web.de>
> Subject: Re: [texhax] intelligent title capitalization?
> To: texhax at tug.org, mb78aa at yahoo.com
> Date: Tuesday, 15 March, 2011, 9:07 AM
> 
> "Mike B." <mb78aa at yahoo.com>,
> 22.02.2011 04:24:45:
> > anyone knows a package which will intelligently
> capitalize titles, for example:
> > \autocap{this is a title}
> > gives
> > This is a Title
> 
> The coolstr package already is quite smart in detecting
> "numerical" strings.
> 
> The problem with this request is (in my view) that I have
> never seen any algorithm on capitalization in titles. The
> "rule" is always indicated by examples only, nobody seems to
> know an algorithm.
> 
> The task may be a major research project in computer
> linguistics or so. Maybe the Google people can help you.
> 
> It may seem that a good algorithm would be "capitalize
> nouns, verbs, adjectives, and nothing else" -- how do you
> want to distinguish them from other items?
> 
> One example that just came to my mind: "Take the A Train"
> ("Take the a Train" would be wrong) ...
> 
>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_the_%22A%22_Train
> 
> Cheers, 
> 
>     Uwe.
> 
> 
>