So I’ve got a particularly bad case of LSF. As many as half of the words I capitalize end up with the first two letters in upper case. I’ve tried over the years to train out of this annoying behavior but it seems to be a affliction that I cannot unlearn.
I seem to recall a setting somewhere in an older OS that could correct this kind of typo, but it either has been eliminated - as is often the case, because, you know, reasons - or it has been moved somewhere else in settings that I have not found. ChatGPT was little help in this quest for the cure (“Engage in typing practice to reduce this tendency” - gee, thanks) and although the $36 Keyboard Maestro might be a fix for this one typing problem, I would have little use for it otherwise, as my workflow is almost entirely mouse-driven.
Is there a system, shortcut, or automation-level solution to this issue? Of all the special accommodations in Accessibility, I haven’t seen one for my pervasive typo.
I’m pretty sure Typinator can fix this.
I suspect TextExpander and other similar apps can as well.
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Thanks. Grok suggested the same two apps, plus something called Karabiner-elements. I see Typinator specifically has a setting for DOuble caps. Grok also wrote me a script as well as mentioning the “Sticky Keys” setting as something to test. Whatever mix of settings I’ve got going on right now seems to correct my poor typing in a lot of apps, but anything in a browser, SUch as THis SIte, remains unaffected regardless of browser.
Actually good advice. I used to have LSF but solved it by simply typing slower. I would expect that a keyboard with more pressure would help as well.
I have a few words I can’t type properly like hte instead of the. I have text substitutions for those words. It has worked well for me. There are only a few words were LSF is a problem.
Typinator is pretty good. It also has a massive list of words with unusual capitalisation which is like a boosted auto correct. Pretty handy
Update - found aText for $4.99/year, which is worth it for me. I didn’t need any of the additional functions in the other apps. This one has other text automation functions too, but I only needed the one: correcting the double capitalization. And it works quite well for that. 21 day trial should be enough to see if I can get some use out of whatever else it does. I swear there used to be a Mac OS solution specifically for this issue though. Hopefully it comes back, and yes I’ve sent my request!
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The more I think about it, the more I’m starting to reconsider if I’m just remembering settings in MS Office suite. I can’t check if it is still a setting now. (I very recently became so comfortable with Apple work suite that I purged my Mac of all things Microsoft, for the first time in my adult life. 
) Now I’m thinking that Mac OS may have double cap correction wrapped up in autocorrect which I can’t stand using on any device. Maybe one day Apple AI will get a smart, context-dependent auto correct.
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