Upgrade Storage[beta] Capitalize title after period
The new capitalize after punctuation feature in the beta doesn't work for periods. Works correctly for ? ! :
If this was intentional and the concern is that the . character is also used as a decimal mark, can the feature be set to regard a period followed by a space ". " as the indicator for capitalization?
If this was intentional and the concern is that the . character is also used as a decimal mark, can the feature be set to regard a period followed by a space ". " as the indicator for capitalization?
Period followed by a space definitely doesn't work:
"Was Sammy Davis Jr. a great entertainer?"
and many other cases where a period stands for an abbreviation.
Generally, there are a lot of places where periods can come up, so I'm reluctant to make this too convoluted. It's a helper function, and it will always require some degree of manual post-processing, e.g. for proper nouns.
The concern is that occasionally I run across an article that uses a period as a separator, rather than a colon. But I agree that it is rare enough to make it a manual fix.
Related, what are your thoughts on capitalizing after the em-dash? I definitely see this construction much more frequently:
"Women in construction—Tapping the untapped resource to meet future demands"
Leitgeb, N. (2010). Safety of electromedical devices: Law — risks — opportunities. Vienna: Springer-Verlag Vienna.
I believe that's the correct capitalization.