Handle abnormal capitalization in titleCase about obsidian-linter HOT 6 CLOSED

I agree. Trying to come up with a more generalized solution would also be more language-independent. The short words to ignore, for example, are all in English right now. However, I would define the "exception rules" a bit differently.

I imagine for some users, the rule titlecase rule also has the side benefit of automatically fixing typos like # FOobar as well. Stipulating that the titlecase rule should only apply to lowercase words would remove with this welcome side effect.

Here is what I would suggest as sensitive title-case-exception-rules

1. all words with 3 or less characters are lowercased (except when at the beginning)
2. all words with 4 or more characters that are combinations of two words from 1) are also lowercased (except when at the beginning). This ensures words like "into" stay lowercase for consistency.
3. all words that are completely uppercased will stay so to ensure, as it is assumed that they are acronyms.

This leaves some edge cases (e.g. "with") and words with special casing (e.g. "iPhone"). The number of those cases should however be quite small, so it could make sense to keep a list of such words, like the titlecase rule does right now.

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I think English is too complicated to handle all the edge cases. Your logic would skip words like cat, and there are countless other cases.

I found this popular implementation which looks good to me.

Running Linter should never make your document worse, since its run so often.

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You are right, I always forget how many short words English has. However, this leaves the problem how to titlecase correctly in languages other than English. Is there maybe some solution like "change-case" available that also works on most common languages?

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Not afaik. Maybe implementing a way to turn off rules in a file would alleviate this issue. #46

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I also ran into this problem.
I think there are 2 ways to resolve this, the plugin can let the user create a list of word that:

1. ignore the heading titleCase
   OR
2. Alway use AllCaps (I would prefer this option, since the plugin can also apply linting while saving)

Cause the people who wrote their note know the acronym they want to use. I think letting the user define their own list can resolve most of the edge case.

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closing because the new option to ignore already cased words should give enough flexibility to users

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