VCOF0015

OmniFocus: Title Case Clipboard Text

This voice command will replace the clipboard text with a title case version of the source text.

For example, “the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy” will be replaced with “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”

Scope and Syntax

Language: English (United States 🇺🇸 · Great Britain 🇬🇧 · Australia 🇦🇺 · Canada 🇨🇦) • Scope: OmniFocus

Command phrase variations (words in [brackets] are optional):

• “Clipboard Title Case”
• “Title Case [the] Clipboard [Text]”

Video: Title Case Clipboard

Converts the text on the clipboard to title case.

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Installing Voice Control commands on iOS · iPadOS · visionOS While Apple’s mobile operating systems currently do not support the Open URL action used in the voice commands files provided on this website, you can still create and use customized Omni Automation voice commands for iPhones and iPads! To create your voice commands, we’ll use specialized Shorcuts workflows that you can “tap-to-install” from the various example pages. Simply follow these steps or view the illustrated instructions here: First, install an Omni Automation shortcut from one of the provided links. (below) Next, in the mobile Settings app, tap Accessibility ▸ Voice Control ▸ Customize Commands ▸ Custom ▸ Create New Command… and in the forthcoming New Command interface select the installed shortcut as the value for the “Action” parameter. Enter one of the command phrases from the example’s documentation page (above) for the value of the “Phrase” property, and… Finally, set the value of the “Application” parameter to either “Any” for global access or choose the Omni app to target from the provided list of installed applications. You can then activate Voice Control and use your voice command to trigger the shortcut to run the Omni Automation script! Installing Siri commands on iOS · iPadOS · visionOS To use this voice command with Siri, simply install the provided Shortcuts workflow. To trigger the command, summon Siri and say: “Hey Siri, [Name of installed Shortcuts workflow]” NOTE: After installation of the shortcut, you can rename it to whatever phrase fits your needs.

Requirements

• Application: OmniFocus 4
• System: macOS 12.3, iOS 15, iPadOS 15, visionOS 1.0

Downloads

• ⇩ COMMANDS-FILE OmniFocus 4.0 (macOS)
• ⇩ SHORTCUT-LINK (“Clipboard Title Case”) (iOS · iPadOS · visionOS)

Voice Command Code

Here’s the Omni Automation code for the command:

Title Case Clipboard Text
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/*
Title Caps
Ported to JavaScript By John Resig - http://ejohn.org/ - 21 May 2008
Original by John Gruber - http://daringfireball.net/ - 10 May 2008
Adapted for Omni Automation by Sal Soghoian - 2 June 2018
License: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
*/

try {
	function createUtterance(textToSpeak){
		langCode = Speech.Voice.currentLanguageCode
		voiceObj = Speech.Voice.withLanguage(langCode)
		utterance = new Speech.Utterance(textToSpeak)
		utterance.voice = voiceObj
		utterance.rate = Speech.Utterance.defaultSpeechRate
		return utterance
	}
	var synthesizer = new Speech.Synthesizer()
	if(!Pasteboard.general.hasStrings){
		throw {
			name: "Missing Resource",
			message: "There is no text on the clipboard."
		}
	}

	var small = "(a|an|and|as|at|but|by|en|for|if|in|of|on|or|the|to|v[.]?|via|vs[.]?)";
	var punct = "([!\"#$%&'()*+,./:;<=>?@[\\\\\\]^_`{|}~-]*)";
  
	const titleCaps = function(title){
		var parts = [], split = /[:.;?!] |(?: |^)["Ò]/g, index = 0;
		
		while (true) {
			var m = split.exec(title);

			parts.push( title.substring(index, m ? m.index : title.length)
				.replace(/\b([A-Za-z][a-z.'Õ]*)\b/g, function(all){
					return /[A-Za-z]\.[A-Za-z]/.test(all) ? all : upper(all);
				})
				.replace(RegExp("\\b" + small + "\\b", "ig"), lower)
				.replace(RegExp("^" + punct + small + "\\b", "ig"), function(all, punct, word){
					return punct + upper(word);
				})
				.replace(RegExp("\\b" + small + punct + "$", "ig"), upper));
			
			index = split.lastIndex;
			
			if ( m ) parts.push( m[0] );
			else break;
		}
		
		return parts.join("").replace(/ V(s?)\. /ig, " v$1. ")
			.replace(/(['Õ])S\b/ig, "$1s")
			.replace(/\b(AT&T|Q&A)\b/ig, function(all){
				return all.toUpperCase();
			});
	};
    
	function lower(word){
		return word.toLowerCase();
	}
    
	function upper(word){
		return word.substr(0,1).toUpperCase() + word.substr(1);
	}
	
	function setCharAt(str,index,chr) {
		if(index > str.length-1) return str;
		return str.substr(0,index) + chr + str.substr(index+1);
	};
	
	clipboardText = Pasteboard.general.string
	console.log("Before:",clipboardText )
	
	if (clipboardText.lastIndexOf('’') === -1){
		changedText = titleCaps(clipboardText)
	} else {
		indices = [];
		for (var i=0; i < clipboardText.length; i++){
			if (clipboardText[i] === "’") indices.push(i);
		}
		clipboardText = clipboardText.replace(/’/g, "'")
		changedText = titleCaps(clipboardText)
		indices.forEach(function(index){
			changedText = setCharAt(changedText,index,'’') 
		})
	}
	
	Pasteboard.general.string = changedText
	console.log("After:", changedText)
	
	utterance = createUtterance("Done!")
	synthesizer.speakUtterance(utterance)
}
catch(err){
	utterance = createUtterance(err.message)
	synthesizer.speakUtterance(utterance)
	// new Alert(err.name, err.message).show()
}