Re: [Capitalize]
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1998
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 17428
interpreted = N
texte = Point very well taken, Ken.Along the same lines, I'd really like the ability to strip extraneous whitespace characters from the pages that WebCat returns (which would be possible with string replacement). I'm finding that the formatting which keeps my WebDNA nice and readable can result in HTML pages that are severly bloated with spaces and carraige returns...Or is there a W* plug-in out there that will do this?-DaveAt 4:45 PM 5/1/98, Kenneth Grome wrote: >>[Capitalize] gives me: >> >> The P.c.s. (pacific Coast Software) Web-site >> said hello, World >> >>When what I really want is: >> >> The P.C.S. (Pacific Coast Software) Web-Site >> Said Hello, World >> >> >>[Capitalize] can be good for some quick-and dirty formatting, but would be >>much more useful if it capitalized not just after spaces, but also after >>quotes (single and double), hyphens, parenthesis, periods, commas, brackets >>(curly, square, and angle), tabs, line breaks, slashes, apersands, >>asterisks, etc. > > >Please, don't get me started on this [capitalize] issue ... > >I've been asking for (and hoping for and waiting for) a string replacement >function for more than a year now. A string replacement function is >obviously far more powerful and universally useful than capitalizing some >text that the typist could very easily have typed properly in the first >place -- yet WebCatalog still doesn't offer any string replacement >capabilities. > >But instead, during the past year PCS has given us [capitalize] ... and a >slightly more useful [convertchars], both of which have limited >applications but neither of which do what I need. > >It seems that if PCS would consider expanding the new [convertchars] to >something a bit more useful, perhaps something like [convertString] which >would replace any number of contiguous characters with a different string >of characters, then I might actually have the tools I need in order to >offer my clients what they keep asking for ... > >A year ago was the first time someone asked me about this capability. That >(lost) client wanted a dirty word screening solution. He simply wanted >WebCat to get rid of any profane language posted by the users of his >message board system *before* those bad words or phrases got displayed. >But it could not be done in WebCatalog a year ago, and it still cannot be >done today. > >Instead, I can now use [convertchars] to replace all his u's with e's, >which will change That's a bunch of bullshit into That's a bench of >bellshit. But that just doesn't cut it when what the client expects is: > >That's a bunch of *DIRTY WORD DELETED* > >Sincerely, >Ken Grome >808-737-6499 >WebDNA Solutions >mailto:ken@webdna.net >http://www.webdna.net o--------------- Dave MacLeay --+ o----------- Digital Frontier --+ o--- dave@digitalfrontier.com --+
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Point very well taken, Ken.Along the same lines, I'd really like the ability to strip extraneous whitespace characters from the pages that WebCat returns (which would be possible with string replacement). I'm finding that the formatting which keeps my WebDNA nice and readable can result in HTML pages that are severly bloated with spaces and carraige returns...Or is there a W* plug-in out there that will do this?-DaveAt 4:45 PM 5/1/98, Kenneth Grome wrote: >>
[capitalize] gives me: >> >> The P.c.s. (pacific Coast Software) Web-site >> said hello, World >> >>When what I really want is: >> >> The P.C.S. (Pacific Coast Software) Web-Site >> Said Hello, World >> >> >>
[capitalize] can be good for some quick-and dirty formatting, but would be >>much more useful if it capitalized not just after spaces, but also after >>quotes (single and double), hyphens, parenthesis, periods, commas, brackets >>(curly, square, and angle), tabs, line breaks, slashes, apersands, >>asterisks, etc. > > >Please, don't get me started on this
[capitalize] issue ... > >I've been asking for (and hoping for and waiting for) a string replacement >function for more than a year now. A string replacement function is >obviously far more powerful and universally useful than capitalizing some >text that the typist could very easily have typed properly in the first >place -- yet WebCatalog still doesn't offer any string replacement >capabilities. > >But instead, during the past year PCS has given us
[capitalize] ... and a >slightly more useful
[convertchars], both of which have limited >applications but neither of which do what I need. > >It seems that if PCS would consider expanding the new
[convertchars] to >something a bit more useful, perhaps something like [convertString] which >would replace any number of contiguous characters with a different string >of characters, then I might actually have the tools I need in order to >offer my clients what they keep asking for ... > >A year ago was the first time someone asked me about this capability. That >(lost) client wanted a dirty word screening solution. He simply wanted >WebCat to get rid of any profane language posted by the users of his >message board system *before* those bad words or phrases got displayed. >But it could not be done in WebCatalog a year ago, and it still cannot be >done today. > >Instead, I can now use
[convertchars] to replace all his u's with e's, >which will change That's a bunch of bullshit into That's a bench of >bellshit. But that just doesn't cut it when what the client expects is: > >That's a bunch of *DIRTY WORD DELETED* > >Sincerely, >Ken Grome >808-737-6499 >WebDNA Solutions >mailto:ken@webdna.net >http://www.webdna.net o--------------- Dave MacLeay --+ o----------- Digital Frontier --+ o--- dave@digitalfrontier.com --+
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