Screenplay formatting issue [undoing all caps treatment automatically]

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Note: I use Scrivener on an iPad Pro with no external keyboard (yet) so I can’t touch type and I have no options for keyboard commands…

Whenever my finger slips to the wrong style in the screenplay formatting menu and I mistakenly assign a style that is all caps (like Character) and later try to reassign another style that is not all caps (like Action or Dialogue), it reformats the spacing and indents but it doesn’t remove the caps. This is a problem when I haven’t noticed my error until after doing a lot of additional typing — not realizing it’s in all caps!

This may be a programming oversight because when I assign Parenthetical and it adds the parentheses, then I change that to another, it remove the parentheses! But removing parentheses manually is a whole lot easier than retyping passages that are (but shouldn’t be) in ALL CAPS.

At the very least, there should be a button to “convert to lower case” to get me out of those jams. If there is one, I can’t find it so please tell me where to look. But ideally, the ALL CAPS should be a non-destructive style assignment within the screenplay styles, like bold or italics, rather than a conversion.

I cross my fingers for a solution!

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I think a lot of Scrivener’s script formatting is just plain-coded – not done with character- or paragraph-styles. (RTF has a caps code span, but I am not sure it is being used by the script-formatting algorithm.) I think this means Scriv does not have ready identificational access to that which you would want de-capped for you in these situations.

So, a to-lower-case-function is your best bet. MacOS Scriv has such a function, but to my knowledge anyway, iOS Scriv does not.

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Thank you. I was afraid of that. I work mainly from my iPad so I hope it’s something that might be added in the near future.

Apple Pages for iOS has a style setting for various cases (all caps, title case, l/c, etc.) so it seems it ought to be something that could be implemented. If not, a tool to convert from all caps to l/c would be helpful for correcting long passages of all caps.

I realize Scrivener isn’t meant to be the end-all screenplay tool, but it’s nice being able to use that feature within the same app where all my research and other notes are and then exporting to a more robust screenplay app. (It does a nice job of exporting.)

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