Scrivener autocorrects I.e. to i.e. at beginning of sentence

[Mad_Girl_Disease]

Would it be possible in autocorrect to define just the lowercase letters [ie] without any punctuation as a word to be autocorrected to [i.e.] ? If so, then the option to capitalize the first letter of a sentence might then capitalize the [I] for you…?

If that works, or doesn’t quite work, you might try creating an autocorrect where [iei] performed the autocorrect you want. Then, in use, you would intentionally mistype the trigger and get the desired result.

I haven’t played with autocorrect in Scrivener much. But in Word, I have [ie] set to autocorrect to [i.e.,] inclusive of the final comma. I have [e.g.,] set up similarly.

AutoHotKey would also be able to handle this. But AHK is usually not worth using for just one or two operations. If you do try AHK, be sure to remove all variations of ie from Scrivener’s autocorrect just so you don’t confuse either yourself or Scrivener, or AHK.

Didn’t see this reply from MM before my similar suggestion:

@MimeticMouton

enable additional substitutions in the Corrections tab of Options and create a replacement like “IIE.” to convert to “I.e.”, then type that trigger text when you want to start the sentence with the “I.e.”

Yes, it should be possible to get something like that to work.

[Clay]

RESOLUTION: Hi folks. Thanks to all of your for your contributions. Heard from Scrivener support that this is the way it is designed to work (after a few years ago people complained about the opposite correction). The easiest workaround I’ve tried is to just do a Ctrl-Z (undo) just after the correction happens. The next easiest is I’ve decided even though there’s no rule everyone agrees on, that I’ll just try to wean myself from putting it at the beginning of a sentence. This was my first post in this forum, and it’s a great tool! Thanks again, everyone.