Wrong capitalisation with auto correction

[anweid]

This is a copy of my post from 2019-12-06. The problem still persists with Affinity Publisher 1.9.0.920 (Windows):

Affinity Publisher 1.8.0.502 (and previous versions) can automatically capitalise the first character in sentences. In order not to capitalise behind abbreviations, a list of common abbreviations is supplied. Fine. Unfortunately, the detection of the end of a sentence without abbreviations is more unreliable than with other programs: Apparently, Publisher not only looks at the last character entered and checks for end characters like '.!?' and such, but also at other characters before that, resulting in unwanted capitalisation. In all following examples, the second part of the sentence was wrongly capitalised, because Publisher finds an exclamation mark somewhere, but fails to realise that there are other characters between the exclamation mark and the rest of the sentence:

• He cried “Help!”, But nobody came.
• But - alas! - It was not so.
• Aged 104 (sic!), She began to play the piano.

It would be nicer if Publisher only looked at the last entered character and derived the end-of-sentence information from that, instead of looking at lots of other characters.

Andreas Weidner

PS: Mind that the second example uses hyphens, which are typographically nonsense there. With the correct n-dashes, the second part of the sentence is not wrongly capitalised...

[Gabe]

Hi @anweid,

Thanks for reporting this. Issue logged!