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o.k. basically it is a simple idea that may already be in place but is a hard one to test without potentially having a thread in complete caps.

is there a way of having the forum set up so that when someone does post in complete capitals then it automatically changes it?

i noticed that the titles of each thread automatically sets the first letter of each word in capital so the technology is obviously there, just whether its iin place or not.

its surely similar technology to having the setting that screens swear words.

sorry if it's already in place i just dont want to try it and then look a fool ;D

Sadly not. Not in a way that wouldn't screw up things that shouldn't be screwed up.

bummer. well maybe it will be feasable in the future

Perhaps, but the issue is really about the logic required to do it. I could change all posts so that they are all in lowercase except at the beginning of a sentence - but that wouldn't be right in many cases. How does one know what should and shouldn't be capitalised? I'd much rather just speak to those few users that post in caps, explain to them not to and go from there. If anyone knows of a algorithm for correcting caps, that works well, do PM me as I'd be very interested.

While we are on the subject does anyone know if in microsofts packages like word/excel you can change a large portion of text from lower to upper case and vice versa?

The amount of times I've written a sentance only to look up and i've hit the caps lock key prior to typing.....really annoying!

Paul

Paul there is a way. I remember reading it in some sheets my mum got from her work about it. I will have a look around for the code.

Here we are, highlight the text and press SHIFT + F3

Your a star! Cheers mate.

Paul

Perhaps have an algorithm that says "If the entire post is in caps, and it's longer than say 2 letters - example "OK" - then convert to lowercase?"

Could this help?   http://www.mediacollege.com/internet/javascript/text/case-uppercase.html

I appreciate it's client-side JavaScript, but it might work when you're typing the post?

Ali

So we couldn't talk about NASA, we'd have to talk about nasa? You seeing the issues? Its not one that I have seen anyone solve yet, sadly.

The only solution I've seen so far is similiar to the spell checker.. in which it checks the words posted against a dictionary, and if its not preceded by a ". " or ".  " or "/n" then it'll swap the word back to lower case. It doesnt really use any real logic, and given the sort of spelling by most (including me) its not really a feasible system at the moment. Just report them and if its ridiculous i'm sure a mod will sort it out?

Or just warn people who post in caps.

I dont really find it that big a big a problem.

Err, yes, like I said before...

I dont see the problem with posting in caps - i don't - but...

anyway - a system trhat would change caps - to lowercase - wouldn't it change letters that need to be in caps

eg: Marzocchi 66 'ATA', 'BMX', ect,..

peace out ;D

i think thats what this whole thread is about....

you need to read the rest of the posts ;)

and what if say it had a 10letter boundry? or something... so that a whole post couldn't be made in caps?

just my thoughts... :P
Alexxxx

would that mean you couldn't use ten letters in a row with caps or ten letters in caps in the whole post. neither would work