If an abbreviation consists of letters, you can use the pop-up menu next to the abbreviation
to specify how Typinator should handle case variations:
Case must match
If "Case must match" is selected, you need to type the abbreviation exactly as you have defined
it.
Case does not matter
When you select "Case does not matter", Typinator also expands “btw” when you
type “BTW” or even “bTw”.
Case affects expansion
When you select "Case affects expansion", mixed case in a typed abbreviation affects the
expansion in the following way (assuming that “btw” stands for the expansion “by the way”):
- If all typed letters are capital letters (“BTW”), the expansion will be inserted in all caps as
well (“BY THE WAY”). - If you start the abbreviation with a capital letter and the remainder contains at least one
lower case letter (e.g., “Btw”), the first letter of the expansion appears in upper case
(“By the way”). - If the first typed letter is a lowercase letter, the expansion starts with a lower case letter
(“by the way”).
In short: You can use this setting to generate correctly capitalized phrases at the beginning
and in the middle of a sentence.