Okay --I understand your problem now --and the feedback from Emacspeak will not help you in this case. Emacspeak is set up to indicate to you when something is capitalized --not to indicate when something *isn't* capitalized. This is in genreal the right thing since it avoids lots of chatter. When I write documents I typically catch errors of the form "first word in sentence not capitalized" etc using a Perl script that I wrote while I was writing my thesis at Cornell --over time it has colected a set of useful rules that typically catch all the errors that creep in during editing --including the notorious missing space after the end of sentence period, deleting the first word of a sentence during edits --and thereby leaving the first word of a sentence uncaptialized etc. I'll attach the perl script so it goes into the archives --it's designed for checking TeX and LaTeX documents.
perl script to proof documents for silly typos
>>>>> "Ann" == Ann K Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: Ann> Hi all, Yes, Raman, I have an unfortunate habit of Ann> typing too fast and sometimes my words at the Ann> beginning of sentences don't get capitalized. So, Ann> if I am proofing an official document, I really Ann> need to be able to check the individual characters Ann> within a word for capitalization as I move across Ann> them. I didn't know about the c-e ds command. I Ann> will try that. Here is an example for you. If I Ann> forget to capitalize the word "my" in the beginning Ann> of a sentence, if I use the right arrow key to go Ann> over the 'm' and the 'y', there is no difference in Ann> pitch and the pock sound doesn't go off. If I have Ann> capitalized the word, and I move the right arrow in Ann> the same way, I still get no feedback. Only by Ann> using the up and down arrows do I get the pock Ann> sound, but it is contained in the whole line of Ann> text and is sometimes difficult to pinpoint. Ann> I hope this is making sense? I'll try your Ann> suggestions and see if it fixes my problem, thanks. Ann> Ann P. Ann> -- Ann K. Parsons: email: akp@xxxxxxxxxxx evoice: Ann> 2440477 ICQ Number: 33006854 WEB SITE: Ann> http://home.eznet.net/~akp "All that is gold does Ann> not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." Ann> JRRT