Capitalization of index entries

[David Carlisle]

You could do it in tex but I think I'd do a one-off edit to correct
your source. Any editor ought to be able to change all the instances
in the document  with a single replace command, or you could use an
external tool such as sed or perl

sed -e 's/\\index{\(.\)/\\index{\u\1/g'

probably does what you want

$ echo '\index{abcd} abc \index{xyz}' | sed -e 's/\\index{\(.\)/\\index{\u\1/g'
\index{Abcd} abc \index{Xyz}



David

On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 at 21:05, Djones9976 via texhax <texhax at tug.org> wrote:
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> I completed a manuscript for a book making entries for words I wanted to index using the command \index{xxxxx} or \index{Xxxxx} if I wanted to capitalize the word in the index.  Now I find that the generally accepted rule is to capitalize all words whether they are capitalized in the text or not.   Is there a way that I can correct all my \index{xxxxx} entries to read \index{Xxxxx} without changing them one by one?
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> Many thanks.
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> D. W. Jones
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