davebletsch / py-phenator

Py-phenator

This was my first attempt to automate a rather mundane but necessary task. Py-phenator uses a very simple Python script to replace spaces in-between words with hyphens.

Often I would find myself realizing a compound phrase would be better suited as hyphenated. The perfectionist in me simply couldn't let this go, not matter how casual the form of electronic communication. As a result, I would either manually click onto each space, backspace to the first space, or just delete the phrase entirely and start over. All of these options are far more time-consuming and click-intensive than I'd like. So, I implemented this script via MacOS Automator.

Automator Procedure

(coming soon)

To Use:

1. Highlight the text phrase to be hyphenated.

2. Copy to the clipboard (CMD + c).

3. Right click.

4. Select Pyphenator from the quick service context menu.

5. Paste the newly-hyphenated compound phrase over the hightlighted text (CMD + v).