Automatically capitalize first letter of first word in a new sentence in LaTeX

Posted by Tom Hagen on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Tom Hagen
Published on 2010-05-12T11:01:32Z Indexed on 2010/05/14 20:24 UTC
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I know one of LaTeX's bragging points is that it doesn't have this Microsoftish behavior. Nevertheless, it's sometimes useful.

LaTeX already adds an extra space after you type a (non-backslashed) period, so it should be possible to make it automatically capitalize the following letter as well.

Is there an obvious way to write a macro that does this, or is there a LaTeX package that does it already?

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