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

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Well, when I wrote the following method, you hadn't gotten any help yet ....
but just received the message from Fredric Gross -- if his suggestion works,
hooray, that's much easier -- I suspect you may have already tried that,
though ... so read on only if CC doesn't work .... I don't have a clue as to
what's going on wrt fonts -- but logically the following MIGHT work ....

See if the following steps work -- if they do work, they can be canned ...

--highlight the text you want to convert to small caps
--store highlighted text into sc-temp (sad sc-temp) (can use any file name
not in use)
--delete highlighted text
--toggle small caps on
--type on command line "run sc-temp" (to feed the text back in) but toggle
cursor back to text (F10) before executing it (F9)
--toggle small caps off
--erase sc-temp for next time

Good luck.
Marge
----- Original Message -----
From: Sacks, Avram
To: XYWRITE@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 2:38 PM
Subject: converting upper and lower-case letters to small caps
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