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From: jtc@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (J.T. Conklin)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: \uppercase & \lowercase (was Re: LaTeX Indexing)
Message-ID: <488@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 11 Jun 90 19:21:09 GMT
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In article <3430@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes:
>\uppercase and \lowercase are strange beasts, as they are not expandable
>(evaluation is a non-TeX term), this means that they only do something when
>they are processed in TeX's ``stomach'', i.e. when they are about to be
>processed as output. The converted token list is then again read as input.
>So in this case the following will probably work:
>
>\lowercase{\index{#1}}

Thanks Piet, I tried reversing the \index and \lowercase in 
the macros and they worked fine.  No more editing the index
file by hand... for now.

But eventually, I may need to add an index entry which is
an acronym or something like that and shouldn't be lowercased.
Is there any way to build a \dictcase macro that would convert
text as follows:

	TEXT -> TEXT
	Text -> text
	text -> text

	--jtc

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