Hei everyone!A while ago I filed a bug report and I had to realize that I am looking at a design choice here.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46517Basically, when the cursor resides in a word (after first or in front of the last character of the word), all formats apply to the whole word. I never realized this, until I started using subscript and superscript a lot in my writing (for chemical names like CO2).
Is it feasible to change this behavior to formats only being applied to newly typed characters? It seems strange to me, that the whole word is affected, since it is something from the past, in contrast to typing new characters in the future after invoking formatting (like super-/subscript). If a whole word has to be formatted, it can easily be marked by double clicking it. This also makes more sense to me, since I thereby actively tell LibreOffice, that I want the whole word to be affected. For clarification, I am arguing for the logic behind the formatting behavior, not for a reduction in mouse clicks to perform a certain task.
This also seems to be the default behavior in MS Office 2010. Only newly typed characters are affected by formatting in Word and Excel. (And yes, I deserve a beating for using MS Office in my favor, even though I shout out my animosity against it whenever I can ;-)
Greetings, Daniel M