[Libreoffice-ux-advise] Should formatting apply to word at cursor position or only characters typed after formatting was invoked
Daniel Mania
daniel.mania at umb.no
Fri Dec 7 05:41:58 PST 2012
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
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.
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
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