Capitalize first character

[philipt18]

It would be useful to have a way to style text so the first character is Capitalized. I'm specifically interested in this for styling Index entries, so that the first character of index entries will all be capitalized.

[MikeTO]

Just to explain for others, ID's index feature provides options to capitalize all level 1 topics, all topics, the selected topic, or the selected topic and its subtopics.

Doing something like that might be easier than creating a new formatting attribute that could be added to a text style.

I know I wrote in your other thread that it couldn't be done with Publisher 2.3 (https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/197291-a-few-questions-about-formatting-an-index-in-publisher/#comment-1163617) but I thought of a workaround. There are so many features in Publisher that there's usually some way you can hack it to do what you want.

1. Create a character style with All Caps enabled
2. Edit the Index Entry 1 paragraph style with Drop Caps enabled and with Height set to 1 line, Characters set to 1, and Style set to the all caps character style you just created

A drop cap set to 1 line high and 1 character wide is just a regular character, and the all caps character style takes care of capitalizing it.

If you also wanted your level 2 headings capitalized then just repeat #2 for Index Entry 2.

Cheers