[Tugindia] capitalization of the first letter in a sentence

[David Kastrup]

"Krishna Mohan Gundu" <gkmohan at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to detect if a macro is expanded at the beginning of a
> sentence and thereby capitalize the first letter? Say I have a macro
>
> \newcommand{\fref}[1]{figure \ref{#1}}
>
> and a sentence begins with \fref{}. In this case how do I capitalize
> the "f" in the "figure"?

\DeclareRobustcommand{\fref}[1]{\ifvmode F\else
  \ifnum\spacefactor>2000 F\else f\fi\fi igure~\ref{#1}}

But this is not particularly reliable, so you should proofread.  It
will not work with \frenchspacing, for one thing.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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