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Q&A Autocapitalize after colon for dialog?

I write my dialog in this format: Joe: Why are you wearing a shoe on your head? Sam: Mind your own damn business! What's annoying here is that it doesn't automatically capitalize the word follow...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by noClue‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T11:30:32Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/44008
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar noClue‭ · 2019-12-08T11:30:32Z (almost 5 years ago)
I write my dialog in this format:

    Joe: Why are you wearing a shoe on your head?
    Sam: Mind your own damn business!

What's annoying here is that it doesn't automatically capitalize the word following the colon. Is there a way to automatically capitalize the first word after a colon like it's the start of a sentence, but only for these specific instances? Or just in general?

I don't actually mind if I have to undo an auto capitalized word here and there when I used a colon in the middle of a sentence, as it's a lot less common in my writing, but fixing the first letter after every colon in a dialog heavy scene is tedious...

I'm using the Windows version (Version 1.9.9.0) of the tool [scrivener](/questions/tagged/scrivener "show questions tagged 'scrivener'").

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-03-24T23:41:32Z (over 5 years ago)
Original score: 4