[Affinity Publisher: How do I stop AF from capitalizing letters?]

4 minutes ago, anto said:

You can use regular expression.

If you want to replace all capital letters with lowercase letters at the beginning of a sentence, use a regular expression:
Find:

^([  A  -  Z  ]+)  

replace with: \L$0
If you want to replace all capital letters in sentences, use the following expression:
find:

([  А  -  Я  ]+) 

replace with: \L$0

 

 

Whoa, thats amazing! I will try it and see. Does it keep it as a lowercase by default? 

[Affinity Publisher: How do I stop AF from capitalizing letters?]

This is my sixth post to the forums. In the past I would search the forums thoroughly and tried to search again with patience and diligence for: (see image screenshot 1, sorry I don't know how to post images inline)

I found some information about Capitalization on the Affinity website: 

https://affinity.help/publisher/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Text/capitalisation.html?title=Capitalization

Title Exceptions

"In Affinity Publisher's preferences, select Title Exceptions. The list here contains short prepositions, conjunctions, articles, and any other words you do not want to be altered when the Title Case transformation is applied.

Use the pop-up menu to set different title exceptions for each of Affinity Publisher's supported languages. The list used when the Title Case transformation is applied depends on text's language setting, indicated by the Spelling setting in the Character panel's Language section."

In another post: 

Solerous posted (see reference screenshot) 

"2) How do I choose Capitalization > Lowercase for a style? It doesn't seem to exist in the style options, though it is available to be used manually via the menu." 

Which seemed not to be answered, or it wasn't quoted to respond directly to this question similar to mine. I wasn't able to follow if the question was answered or not. 
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With all this said above trying to figure out the question in my subject, How do I stop AF from capitalizing letters?

I would like to make a lowercase letter into a character style to keep it lowercase and turn it red, (see screenshot 3) but every time I try to make one and press the spacebar in the beginning of a sentence, it auto-capitalizes and turns it into a capital B. 

How do I change my perspective about how AP works so I can achieve the same goal?

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I figured it out. 

I had it set to secondary right click by pressing two finger tap, which worked great! 

 

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[Option+Shift Drag (Coming from Illustrator)]

Hi Affinity Community, 

Is there a way to Option ⌥ + Shift ⇧ + Drag a Shape tool to constrain centering (Option / Alt) and concentric size (Shift) while dragging. I'm coming from Illustrator to Affinity Designer, and having trouble copy/paste a layer to constrain size and centering. 

Thanks in advance! 

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