Script to replace small caps that are typed as capital letters with non-capital letters (A = a, B = b, etc...)

Question

I'm looking for a way to replace small caps that are typed as capitals by their normal equivalent.
I've got a text that contains a lot of names which should all be set in small caps.
In fact they are, but because capital letters are used for first letters they don't scale.
Short: I would like to be able to look for A, B, C... (in small caps) and replace them with (a, b, c...) in small caps in one go.
(compare two arrays?? -> is this possible in indesign scripting)

Answer 1

Hi,
Actually, it works only with OpenType fonts and - in this case - can be managed by UI find...change feature.
With other type of font we need a real change of contents (another keyboard hit).
It could be done with this code (activeDocument is a target):
-- works for Open Type as well --
// For Latin Basic (ASCII from 65 to 90)
// changes a "cap" letter to a "small" letter
// if Capitalization.SMALL_CAPS is applied to
app.findGrepPreferences = app.findGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "\\u";
app.findGrepPreferences.capitalization = Capitalization.SMALL_CAPS;
var
  mSTART = 65, // ASCII number for "A"
  Mstart = 97, // ASCII number for "a"
  mDiff = 0,
  mTarget = app.activeDocument,
  mFound = mTarget.findGrep(),
  len = mFound.length, cString;
while (len-->0) {
  cString = mFound[len].contents;
  mDiff = cString.charCodeAt(0) - mSTART;
  if (mDiff > -1 && mDiff < 26)
  mFound[len].contents = String.fromCharCode( Mstart + mDiff );
app.findGrepPreferences = app.findGrepPreferences = null;
Jarek