[Issue] Capitalization

[carlac]

I work with documents and often end sentences with numbers. When this happens, the next sentence does not automatically capitalize. Here is an example. "Patient's BP was 164/78. this is elevated from last visit." If my last character is a number before my period, the next word does not capitalize. I feel this is a default somewhere, but I cannot find a solution. Can anyone help me please??

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Yes. Tools, Autocorrect, Options, Capitalize first letter of every sentence.

[carlac]

Im sorry, I should have noted that is checked. Every other sentence capitalizes without problem. It is only the next sentence in which my previous one ends in a number and then period. For example "Weight is 126. this is down 3 pounds." The "T" in this will not capitalize. I thought this may be a default somewhere decimal related or something, but have had no luck. Any other ideas? Thanks in advance!!!

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

There isn't a solution. Abbreviations like e.g. can be added to the exceptions list, so that following words are not capitalised, but words after digits are never capitalised. My guess is that there is a good reason for it, but it escapes me at the moment.

Personally, I use parenthesis if I am using a numbered list in a sentence: 1) because it looks better, 2) so that readers know where the sentence, and the list, ends.

Compare to: Personally, I use parenthesis if I am using a numbered list in a sentence: 1. because it looks better, 2. so that readers know where the sentence, and the list, ends.

[acknak]

Here's a shortcut key you can use: Just before you type the first letter of the following sentence, press and hold the Shift key, then type the letter, then release the Shift key. The letter will automatically be capitalized.

Sorry; sorry.

Recognizing the boundaries of English sentences is a notoriously difficult problem, even when the capitalization is already done. Without the capitalization, it's even more likely to go wrong.

Perhaps the period here is being considered part of the number (i.e. a decimal point). I think the constraint is that the auto capitalization must (almost?) never capitalize something that's not the start of a sentence.

You can always file a bug report: Open Office Quality Assurance - Report Bugs--just check first to see if someone else has already reported it.

[foxcole]

Perhaps the period here is being considered part of the number (i.e. a decimal point).

That's might be what it's doing, but that also makes no sense to me. A decimal point isn't always a period, for one thing, but also a decimal point is meaningless without numbers following it. Logically the capitalization should regard it as a sentence stop in this case.

[floris v]

Perhaps it is because periods can be used in much the same way as parentheses to separate the numbers of a numbered list from the text following them.

[huw]

See issue 59720. There is also the related, but controversial, issue 15524.