[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 49033] Change case -> Sentence case doesn't honor selection; case of entire sentence changes (STR comment 20)

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49033

--- Comment #52 from Philip Rayment <PJRayment@Yahoo.com.au> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #50)

> How the transliteration works is another question to me. I would keep the
> status quo which means:
... 
> ("Mary Jones met [joe] Smith" - "joe" is selected)
> TITLE_CASE: JOE
> SENTENCE_CASE: joe
> LOWERCASE_UPPERCASE: Joe
> UPPERCASE_LOWERCASE: joe

Only that's NOT the status quo, if by that you mean what happens now, and if
you're using Shift-F3 to cycle (perhaps you weren't referring to that??).  What
happens now is:

> ("Mary Jones met [joe] Smith" - "joe" is selected)
> First  keypress: Mary Jones met [Joe] Smith
> Second keypress: Mary jones met [joe] smith (sentence case applied; Jones and Smith decapitalised)
> Third  keypress: Mary jones met [JOE] smith
> Fourth keypress: Mary jones met [joe] smith

I hesitate to suggest this, but one option may be to change the process to be
as follows:
> ("Mary Jones met [joe] Smith" - "joe" is selected)
> First  keypress: Mary Jones met [Joe] Smith
> Second keypress: Mary jones met [joe] smith (sentence case applied; Jones and Smith decapitalised)
> Third  keypress: Mary Jones met [JOE] Smith (sentence case reverted/undone before trying next 
> option)
> Fourth keypress: Mary Jones met [joe] Smith

This would be regardless of whether a selection was made or not.  The problem
is that if the cycling is also fixed to start from the beginning of the cycle
rather than the next step after the previous when a new bit of text is
selected, the user might move the cursor elsewhere after the second step and be
stuck with the unwanted sentence case.  Although there's always the undo
button.

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