proper-case all-caps

[John A Grandy]

does anyone know of an intrinsic .NET function , or font , or other
mechanism , to do "proper-case all-caps" ... ?

so, for a name like "Arnold Schwarzenegger" ...

.... I want it entirely in capital letters , "ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER",
*except* that the "A" and the "S" should be a slightly larger font-size than
the rest of the letters ...

[Robert Jacobson]

What you need is to use "small caps." For example, in Microsoft Word, if
you enter
"Recall Gov. Schwarzenegger" <g> and then set the text to Small Caps (in the
Font dialog box), you'll get the result you want.

The only problem is that, as far as I know, there aren't any text components
that support small caps in the .Net Framework. There also don't appear to
be any third-party components that support it. (I've been looking for years
for a rich text box component with this functionality.)

The best you can do is roll your own. Basically, you need to extend the
RichTextBox with a new property or method that converts lowercase letters to
uppercase letters, but reduces their size a bit (80-90% is about right.)
There are various ways you could do this.

"John A Grandy" <johnagrandy-at-yahoo-dot-com> wrote in message
news:OQ**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

does anyone know of an intrinsic .NET function , or font , or other
mechanism , to do "proper-case all-caps" ... ?

so, for a name like "Arnold Schwarzenegger" ...

... I want it entirely in capital letters , "ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER",
*except* that the "A" and the "S" should be a slightly larger font-size than the rest of the letters ...

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "John A Grandy" <johnagrandy-at-yahoo-dot-com> scripsit:

does anyone know of an intrinsic .NET function , or font , or other
mechanism , to do "proper-case all-caps" ... ?

so, for a name like "Arnold Schwarzenegger" ...

... I want it entirely in capital letters , "ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER",
*except* that the "A" and the "S" should be a slightly larger font-size than
the rest of the letters ...

You will have to set the font size when drawing the text. The lowercase
characters can be converted to uppercase using 'UCase'.

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[Chris Dunaway]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 16:09:45 -0800, John A Grandy wrote:

*except* that the "A" and the "S" should be a slightly larger font-size than
the rest of the letters ...

Another choice is to use a font that has small caps instead of lower case
letters.
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[Cor]

Chris,

That is what the poster wants

Another choice is to use a font that has small caps instead of lower case
letters.

Otherwise he could use str = StrConv(str, vbProperCase)

Cor

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Cor" <no*@non.com> scripsit:

That is what the poster wants

Another choice is to use a font that has small caps instead of lower case
letters.

Otherwise he could use str = StrConv(str, vbProperCase)

This will convert the text to proper case, the OP wanted the text to be
displayed in small caps.

:-)

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[Cor]

Herfried,

Did I said something else, look on what is written, the other choise is what
the poster wants?

That is what the poster wants

Another choice is to use a font that has small caps instead of lower case letters.

Otherwise he could use str = StrConv(str, vbProperCase)

This will convert the text to proper case, the OP wanted the text to be
displayed in small caps.

:-)

Cor

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Cor" <no*@non.com> scripsit:

Did I said something else, look on what is written, the other choise is what
the poster wants?

Ah...

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>