Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Should formatting apply to word at cursor position or only characters typed after formatting was invoked

Great to see that this will change in the future! Many biologists and 
chemists will be happy about this :-)
I also wouldn't mind having it as an option, although that might clutter 
up the options dialog. But there is still the possibility to have an 
"Advanced options" tab for experienced users ...

On 8.12.2012 21:06, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote:
> Le 08/12/2012 20:28, Mirek M. a écrit :
> > 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.
>
> Would this subscript/superscript behaviour be optional?
> I've seen technical docs using superscript for whole words.