From: Jacob Fugal <lukfugl@...>
Date: 2006-12-09T09:01:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Capitalization

On 12/8/06, Daniel Finnie <danfinnie@optonline.net> wrote:
> Oops, forgot to paste this one in:
> To get keep words like "of" and "is" lowercase: (basically anything
> under 3 letters)
> text.downcase.gsub(/[A-Za-z]{3,}(?!\/)/) {|x| x.capitalize}

I agree with Paul Lutus, there are too many special cases. And
Daniel's regex here is a good example. I can spot at least three (to
me) obvious errors:

1) Anything with a '/' trailing will not get capitalized, so in the
OP's example, neither "heat" nor "ac" would be capitalized at all.

2) There are plenty of words with fewer than three letters that should
be capitalized. The first person pronoun "I", for instance. Or even
"of" or "is", if they're the first word in the sentence.

3) In the absence of 1 and 2, "ac" would still get turned into "Ac"
rather than "AC".

Jacob Fugal