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From: marvit@hplpm.hpl.hp.com (Peter Marvit)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: UPPER CASE to Mixed case
Message-ID: <MARVIT.91Feb4151958@hplpm.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 4 Feb 91 20:19:58 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA
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Aaargh!  While this may sound silly, my request really is serious.

I need to (intelligently) tranform a batch of text from ALL CAPS to Mixed
case. I don't need 100%, but close would be fine.  A stupid algorithm
(down-case everything not at the start of a sentence or some such) would,
of course, miss acronyms (U.S.A., IBM, AT&T), chemical compounds (HeNe,
SiO2), proper names (Peter, Paul, Pittsburgh), etc.

Ideally, someone has code which will do a reasonable job already.  Else,
someone has skeleton code with a dictionary of exceptions.  Else, I may
end up kludging something together. (Yuck)

Please e-mail offers, since the news feed is being a bit unstable on my
machine. 

	Cheers,
	Peter "miniscule" Marvit


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