#titlecase

lowercase can be quiet. UPPERCASE can be loud.

but Title Case? it’s confident, composed — and clean.

whether you’re writing an essay title, a blog headline, or a chapter name… formatting your words right makes them feel more complete.

we’re here to help with that.

Unyimeabasi Udoh: Title Case September 4 – October 16, 2021 Opening Reception:  September 4th, 12 p.m. – 4 p.m. Appointments recommended, but walk-ins are welcome! [Reserve a time slot to see the show here]

At this point, everybody already knows utopia is no place, but it bears repeating

A void: a gap, a vacuum, a footnote, a pit, a cup (of nothing) that runneth over, a correction, a vacancy, a sweet (nothing), a joke, the pieces that must be picked up when the party is over, a dive bar in a desert, an ache named after a favourite uncle or country, a chasm, an abyss, a past tense that lives in the present, a cavity, a pulled thread from which another sweater is knitted, (nothing), a big thing, a word that shrivelled in the sun, a bird that knocked the egg over[1].

Unyimeabasi Udoh holds close the absences that remain visible in the communication systems on which we nevertheless rely. Their craft is a full feeling of emptiness shaped from these absences. “My country is a hole, and I take comfort there. I, too, am empty,” reads one plaque from their earlier installation My Country (Object Removed for Study).[2]

Udoh’s new exhibition at Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago, Title Case, brings to the fore the artist’s desire to recognize the absurdity and futility that congests life. The exhibited works build on Udoh’s letter garland works and site-specific installations of the past year while expanding the existing range of modes within which they materialize words in their practice.

Artist Bio:

Unyimeabasi Udoh works across various media, including print, installation, sculpture, and embroidery. Their practice centers on legibility, meaning, and how systems of communication and knowledge are built and maintained. Udoh holds an MFA in Visual Communication Design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in Architecture from Columbia University. They have been an artist in residence at the Driehaus Museum, Chicago Artists Coalition, and ACRE. In 2021, they were named one of Newcity's Breakout Artists, and they are a 2021 recipient of the Coney Family Fund Award.

Image credit: Unyimeabasi Udoh, Untitled (No Thanks, No Comment) (2021). Die-cut paper and twine, dimensions variable (min. 29 in x 72 in).

Exhibition text by Casey Carsel.

[1] The final item of this list references Georges Perec’s reference to a French nursery rhyme in “Species of Spaces / Espèces d’espaces” (1974). See Georges Perec, “Species of Spaces / Espèces d’espaces” in Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, trans. John Sturrock (London: Penguin Books, 1997), p. 8.

[2] Find documentation of My Country (Object Removed for Study) at https://unyi.me/my-country-object-removed-for-study.

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I write pretty much everything I write that's more than 280 characters in Emacs. A lot of that has a title associated with it and ever since discovering it my preferred way to title case text is to run it through Gruber's titlecase script.

Emacs already has fantastic facilities for running shell commands, one of which is C-u M-| … which will run a command on the region (apparently even if it's non-contiguous) and replace it with the output. This is how I've been doing it for years but there's just one problem: titlecase adds a trailing newline to the text which I then need to clean up.

I ran across titlecase.el around the same time I found titlecase itself but for whatever reason I decided it wasn't worth my time to install. I finally pilfered the parts of it I wanted recently and it's been the dream I always though it would be.

There are several methods to title case a sentence -- this one utilizes a for loop, charAt and slice methods.The comments are italicized. 

In this function, str[i].slice(1) will extract the characters from index 1 to the end of the string. It will hold the string (except the first letter) and joins them by + with the upper cased first character of the string.  function titleCase(str) {  // Step 1. Lowercase the string  str = str.toLowerCase();    // Step 2. Split the string into an array of strings  str = str.split(' ');     // str = ["i'm", "a", "little", "tea", "pot"];    // Step 3. Create the FOR loop  for (var i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {    str[i] = str[i].charAt(0).toUpperCase() + str[i].slice(1);  /* Here str.length = 5    1st iteration: str[0] = str[0].charAt(0).toUpperCase() + str[0].slice(1);                   str[0] = "i'm".charAt(0).toUpperCase()  + "i'm".slice(1);                   str[0] = "I"                            + "'m";                   str[0] = "I'm";    2nd iteration: str[1] = str[1].charAt(0).toUpperCase() + str[1].slice(1);                   str[1] = "a".charAt(0).toUpperCase()    + "a".slice(1);                   str[1] = "A"                            + "";                   str[1] = "A";    3rd iteration: str[2] = str[2].charAt(0).toUpperCase()   + str[2].slice(1);                   str[2] = "little".charAt(0).toUpperCase() + "little".slice(1);                   str[2] = "L"                              + "ittle";                   str[2] = "Little";    4th iteration: str[3] = str[3].charAt(0).toUpperCase() + str[3].slice(1);                   str[3] = "tea".charAt(0).toUpperCase()  + "tea".slice(1);                   str[3] = "T"                            + "ea";                   str[3] = "Tea";    5th iteration: str[4] = str[4].charAt(0).toUpperCase() + str[4].slice(1);                   str[4] = "pot".charAt(0).toUpperCase() + "pot".slice(1);                   str[4] = "P"                           + "ot";                   str[4] = "Pot";                                                          }    // Step 4. Return the output  return str.join(' '); 

// ["I'm", "A", "Little", "Tea", "Pot"].join(' ') => "I'm A Little Tea Pot" } titleCase("I'm a little tea pot");

View this medium article to find more ways to title case a sentence:

Tired of inexperienced, yet well-meaning, users entering text without using proper mixed-case?  You never know if they are intentionally yelling, trying to look chic or just were never instructed in the dark arts of proper capitalization & keyboarding.  Sometimes the user is just in a hurry.

To make data entries like names & titles be more profession during data entry, I wrote a quick script that uses ToTitleCase() to auto-reformat text that is entered in all upper or lower case.