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On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Daniel Mania <daniel.mania@umb.no> wrote:

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=46517<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46517>

Basically, 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.


We've discused this on today's design IRC meeting, and we agreed that, when
within a word, subscript and superscript should not apply to the whole
word, but other formatting commands should, as it's usual for a user to
want to italicize or underline a whole word, but uncommon for a whole word
to be a subscript or a superscript.

Could a developer make an exception for subscript and superscript so that
it doesn't apply to the whole word when the cursor is inside it, please?

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