titlecase
is a small tool and library (crate) that capitalizes English text
according to a style defined by John Gruber for post titles on his
website Daring Fireball. titlecase
should run on all platforms supported
by Rust including Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Windows.
titlecase
is licensed under the MIT license.
% echo 'Being productive on linux' | titlecase
Being Productive on Linux
% echo 'Finding an alternative to Mac OS X — part 2' | titlecase
Finding an Alternative to Mac OS X — Part 2
% echo 'an example with small words and sub-phrases: "the example"' | titlecase
An Example With Small Words and Sub-Phrases: "The Example"
titlecase
reads lines of text from stdin and prints title cased versions
to stdout.
See the crate documentation.
Minimum Supported Rust Version: 1.40.0
If you have a stable Rust compiler toolchain installed you can install
the most recently released titlecase
with cargo:
% cargo install titlecase
Instead of simply capitalizing each word titlecase
does the following
(amongst other things):
- Lower case small words like an, of, or in.
- Don't capitalize words like iPhone.
- Don't interfere with file paths, URLs, domains, and email addresses.
- Always capitalize the first and last words, even if they are small words or surrounded by quotes.
- Don't interfere with terms like "Q&A", or "AT&T".
- Capitalize small words after a colon.
This tool makes use of prior work by John Gruber, Aristotle Pagaltzis, and David Gouch.