To run the above script on all open documents, just change the first line to:
finds = app.findGrep();

Double-clicked on Harbs CapsToSmallCaps script which opened my ExtendScript Toolkit 2 app.

Copied/pasted below text

finds = app.documents[0].findGrep();
for(i=0;i<finds.length;i++){
finds[i].contents=finds[i].contents.toLowerCase();
}

into a new script window, saved new script into IDCS3 scripts folder, did the GREP search, ran the script, PERFECT!!!
GENIUS!
PRICELESS!!

Thank you again.

Being new to this scripting angle, is the displayed example script (not the smallcaps zipped one) from Harbs a Java script?

If so I simple must copy and paste his text into BBEdit and save the file with an extension of .jsx and move it into my IDCS3 scripts folder?

Find GREP. Run Script. Repeat until done.

Then of course you could have many more actions saved, removing the need to repeat yourself in InDesign.

OR, you of course could have the option for lowercase in the field of cases in the change format dialog box.

Makes me think: It would be so cool if there were a “run this script on All” button inside the Find/Change dialog box. Interesting…

To convert an grep to lowercase in your current doc, set your grep in the dialog, and run this script:


finds = app.documents[0].findGrep();
for(i=0;i<finds.length;i++){
finds[i].contents=finds[i].contents.toLowerCase();
}


Harbs

You can just search for normal text, you won’t need GREP. In the find format section you can just search for BASIC CHARACTER STYLE>CASE>ALL CAPS

And Replace Format with BASIC CHARACTER STYLE>CASE>NORMAL

Keep in mind that the caps text refers to sections of the Find Format and Change Format of the find panel.

Simon:

There isn’t a way to change a character style to lower case, you would need a script to do this.

S.C.Shaw

This grep search will find all uppercase letters in between words, but I can’t think of a way to make them lowercase.

(?!\b)(\u+)

HeLlo

to this:

Hello

I’ve tried all the variations in this blog archive, been able to isolate the uppercase L but cannot figure how to change it to a lowercase L.

Appreciate any answer.

How do you Search for entire paragraphs of ALL CAPPED text and convert it all to lowercase, sentencecase, or titlecase?

In many text situations, there are paragraphs occurring throughout text where the writer used ALL CAPS.

An ideal GREP search would find all uppercase words in the entire paragraph; convert to another case; then move on to find the next randomly-occurring paragraph with the same affliction.

I can’t get InDesign CS3 to do it, yet. I noticed David began to comment on that aspect in the podcast (70) and then Anne Marie steered the conversation in a different direction.

This need seems so essential to me, that it leaves me thinking that GREP search would certainly allow for this.

From what I’ve read, other GREP softwares CAN do this, but InDesign cannot.

What are others finding on this?

Mike Witherell in Maryland