Nova^™

Editor menu command to change selected text to all-lowercase with hyphens between words ("kebab case") with common punctuation removed--such as to convert a mixed-case punctuated title or filename for use as an image name or URL slug.

Provided "as is." Use at your own risk.

By Morgan Adams, Adams Immersive

Keyboard shortcut: Cmd Ctrl - (minus)

Examples

"Why…?" (Why Not!) becomes why-why-not

Fruit/PB & J becomes fruit-pb-and-j

1 + 2 = 3 becomes 1-plus-2-equals-3

J.R.R. Tolkien's Work becomes jrr-tolkiens-work

Notes

Removes leading/trailing whitespace (including line breaks) and converts all other runs of whitespace to a single hyphen each.

Any n-dashes, m-dashes, or any of the following characters are changed to ordinary hyphens (and existing hyphens are left as-is):

/ \ _ … ~

The following characters are simply removed:

. ! ? ¡ ¿ , ; : ( ) [ ] ' " ‘ ’ “ ” ` « » *

The following punctuation marks are converted to lowercase words (which may call for further human editing depending on context):

at\ number\ percent\ dollars\ equals\ plus\ degrees\ less-than\ greater-than

Other characters are left as-is.

Any runs of multiple hyphens are collapsed into single hyphens.

Version 1.0

Initial release