RE: converting upper and lower-case letters to small caps

["Sacks, Avram" Avram.Sacks@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks, Francisco.

I do almost zero programming in XyWrite. Even setting up a tiny little program to invoke a saveget set by hitting and  key combination is about as much as I have ever done. However, I can follow "cook book" instructions very well. So, if you have the time, can you spell out for me a little more clearly what I need to do? What is "save gate 10"? Is that anything like a "saveget"? If so, I thought savegets could only be invoked with a single key, and not multiple keys like "10".

BTW, I also tried Marge's suggestion to store the text to another file, turn on the small caps
toggle switch, and then run that file. That didn't work, either. The text was merely put back into
place without changing the letters to small caps. For what it is worth, the way I get small caps now
is through a specially assigned keyboard set as part of a larger keyboard file that was developed
in-house. That keyboard file, has within it, a definition to invoke the small caps keyboard set
when the keypad "minus" key is hit. The keyboard file (cch.kbd) defines that minus key as
a toggle switch for the small caps keyboard set.

All the best,
//Avi

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From: owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxx on behalf of Francisco Barrau
Sent: Thu 11/10/2005 2:56 AM
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: converting upper and lower-case letters to small caps


Only for curiosity: may this small XPL program do that? You only have to put in save gate 10, the
correspondent small caps of any letter:



and run it in a open file with the block defined you want to change.
  You had better to test with a small bock in a test file, and all the other files closed, etc. to
avoid accidents.
 I think it must be completed with other subs (to avoid to work without an open file, avoid beep,
etc) but perhaps is a small begining.
  If you can send your completed version, I would like to test it.
 
  Francisco Barrau

	----- Original Message -----
	From: Sacks, Avram mailto:Avram.Sacks@xxxxxxxx
	To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
	Cc: Fredric Gross mailto:fredric.gross@xxxxxxxx
	Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 4:31 AM
	Subject: RE: converting upper and lower-case letters to small caps


	Unfortunately, Fred. This doesn't work. Entering "cc" in the command line merely
changes highlighted text from upper case to lower case and lower case to upper case.

	

	

	//Avi

	

	

	

	

	Fredric Gross wrote on Tuesday, November 08, 2005 4:02 PM:
	Avram --
	
	At least for this old 3+ user (who did not have the benefit of that programmer's genius), small
caps depend upon the font. If you have specified a large-and-small caps font, the change case
command, CC, will do what you want.
	
	Fred
	
	Sacks, Avram wrote:

	Is it possible to execute a command at the command line that will convert highlighted text into
small capital letters?

	

	Not seeing a reference to small caps in the XyWrite manual, I suspect that my ability to use small
caps at all is a feature added to our company's copy of XyWrite by a programmer no longer with the
company.

	

	Essentially, the minus keypad key (-) is used to turn on and turn off the small cap feature. The
assignment of the small caps to the keys appears in a *.kbd file. I often need to change text from
upper and lower case to all small caps and currently do so by keying in the entry. Is there a way
that I could do this via a command from the command line with highlighted text without having to
spend more than a couple of hours creating special program files or extensively altering existing
system files?

	

	I am using XyWrite III Plus, Version 3.58B

	

	//Avi

	Avram Sacks

	Chicago, IL

	

	847-267-7110

	

	

	
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