Capitalisation

Affinity Publisher can alter the capitalisation of selected words to suit one of several use cases.

Dynamic transformations

The following transformations can be applied via the Text panel. Additional transformations, e.g. Case Sensitive Forms, are available only if the applied OpenType font includes support for them.

The transformations are dynamic, meaning their effect is not persistent. Letters are stored in your document with the capitalisation used to type them. Affinity Publisher changes letters' capitilsation on the fly, which allows you to revert to their original capitalisation if needed.

Dynamic capitalisation transformations

An example sentence as typed (A) and with (B) Small Caps and (C) All Caps dynamic transformations applied.

Persistent transformations

The following transformations are available on the context toolbar of the Artistic Text Tool, Frame Text Tool and Table Tool. They have a persistent effect on how the affected words are stored in your document:

Persistent capitalisation transformations

An example sentence with (D) Lower Case, (E) Upper Case, (F) Toggle Case, (G) Title Case and (H) Sentence Case transformations applied.

Title Exceptions

In Affinity Publisher's settings, select Title Exceptions. The list here contains short prepositions, conjunctions, articles, and any other words you do not want to be altered when the Title Case transformation is applied.

Use the pop-up menu to set different title exceptions for each of Affinity Publisher's supported languages. The list used when the Title Case transformation is applied depends on text's language setting, indicated by the Spelling setting in the Text panel's Language section.

About the Title Case transformation

When the Title Case transformation is applied, words in your text selection are affected as follows (in order):

1 Words with upper-case letters past their first are unaffected on the first application of the Title Case transformation. Applying the transformation a second time makes their first letter upper case and all others lower case.

2 When your text selection contains multiple sentences, rules concerning first words apply to each word that appears after a line break, paragraph break or appropriate punctuation.

Text panel Expand To apply capitalisation (dynamic transformation):
  1. On the Text panel, select Expand next to the Bold/Italic/Underline/Strikethrough section, then OpenType section.
  2. Choose a capitalisation option from the Capitals section.
Case options To apply capitalisation (persistent transformation):

With a text tool selected:

  1. On the context toolbar, tap Case options.
  2. Choose a capitalisation option from the submenu.
Settings To add or remove a title exception:
  1. From the Home screen, select Settings.
  2. Select Title Exceptions.
  3. From the pop-up menu, select the language to which the exception will apply.
  4. In the box below, type the lower-case word you want to remain unchanged (except when it is the first word).
  5. Tap Add or Remove.

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