Get "Capitalize first letter of sentences" to ignore certain abreviations? (E.g. "e.g")

[Philosoraptor - Jeff H]

Sorry if my tongue-in-cheek subject line is confusing 😝.

In Edit -> Settings -> Autocorrect, for the most part having "Capitalize first letter of sentences" checked is a good thing. However, it does have one annoying side-effect, specifically that it also capitalizes the first letter after abbreviations like i.e. and e.g. even when they're in the middle of a sentence (e.g. It does this instead of correctly using a lowercase I in "it"). Most other software with similar functionality seems to be smart enough to avoid this. Is there a way to add exceptions like this to Affinity Publisher?

(Why is "abbreviation" such a long word, anyway? It's almost as cruel as the S in "lisp".)

[Alfred]

51 minutes ago, Philosoraptor - Jeff H said:

Why is "abbreviation" such a long word, anyway?

I’ve always wondered exactly the same thing about the word “monosyllabic”!

[thomaso]

1 hour ago, Philosoraptor - Jeff H said:

it does have one annoying side-effect, specifically that it also capitalizes the first letter after abbreviations like i.e. and e.g.

It does not happen to me (in V1) if I have the spelling language set to "English" in the character attributes … while it occurs if it's set to "None" for instance (or a language that does not have the used abbr., like e.g., i.e. or abbr. in German for instance where d.h., z.B. and Abk. don't cause the capitalisation issue).

[Philosoraptor - Jeff H]

Okay, I'm using a Canadian English dictionary which doesn't have that stuff predefined. I just realized I can type in exceptions manually under Edit -> Settings -> Abbreviations (basically I stopped looking one tab short of where I should have). Presumably you could do the same if, say, you wanted those English-language ones to work in German. (They're really Latin so this is actually something I could see someone wanting to do.)

[thomaso]

2 hours ago, Philosoraptor - Jeff H said:

Presumably you could do the same if, say, you wanted those English-language ones to work in German. (They're really Latin so this is actually something I could see someone wanting to do.)

Apparently, it doesn't work if I manually add abbreviations like "i.e.", "e.g.", or "abbr." to the German exception list: Although manually entering them prevents the second letter of "e.g." and "i.e." from being capitalised, it doesn't help prevent the first letter of a subsequent word from being capitalised and leads to a capitalised result within a sentence e.g. Like this.

Furthermore, in my opinion, it seems irrelevant whether an abbreviation is originally of Latin origin or actually Latin, since it wouldn't make sense to create and assign a separate character style with a separate spelling language for such occurrences (even if Find & Replace might simplify these steps).