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<p>Hello,</p>
<p>You are right that by putting the cursor to the left it writes
normal text. It only happens when you put the cursor to the right
of the field.<br>
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<p>It is not necessary that the field is the last thing in a file.
It is sufficient it is the last thing in a paragraph. In this case
you won't be able to insert text after the field without expanding
the field. At least it will be not so simple. You will have to
press Enter, space, left arrow, backspace, right arrow, and type.<br>
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<p>I also noticed an exception: if you don't select anything, and do
Insert -> Cross Reference -> Set Reference, type a name,
press Insert and then Close, it will insert an empty reference
(which I have no idea why it differs conceptually from a
bookmark?). This empty reference will be not modifiable: nor by
putting the cursor to the left nor to the right, the text of the
reference will stay empty.</p>
<p>So exception aside, I think maybe a good compromise would be
that, if the user put the cursor on the right of a field, and
press "Esc", it will start to type outside of the field, without
expanding the field? Would that work?</p>
<p>Best,</p>
<p>Phil</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 19/08/2022 16:04, Andrew Pitonyak
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">The general expected behavior in libre office, at
least for me, is that if I place the cursor and start typing,
that it will continue using the same attributes and properties
of the character directly to the left of the cursor. So, if I
have bold text, and I placed the cursor to the left of the bold
text and I type, it will not be bold, it will be whatever is to
the left of the cursor. If the cursor is immediately to the
right of the bold text however then it will be bold.<br>
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<div dir="auto">In this case, I assume, but have not verified or
checked in anyway, references are a field. So the intent of
this is to make certain that when the cursor is sitting directly
to the left or right of, whatever is typed does not end up
inside of that field. One side effect of this I expect, is that
if you have a field with only one character you will have no way
of modifying the text inside the field unless there is some
special case when the text of the field is selected. I did not
even check, can I select the text in a field? So what if the
selection is partially in a field?<br>
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<div dir="auto">I would never have considered this a bug, I would
have just considered it an extension of expected behavior. The
annoying part is that if the field is the last thing in a file
you have no way to add text after the field unless you do it
programmatically, but that is also true last I checked of text
tables.<br>
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<div dir="auto">I hope other contributors to comments in the bugs
are correct that it is an easy fix, but I am skeptical.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 19, 2022, at 9:41 AM, Phillips
Rogfield <<a href="mailto:thebudget72@gmail.com"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">thebudget72@gmail.com</a>>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em !important;">Dear
developers,</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em !important;">I would like to
fix <a
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81720#c22"
moz-do-not-send="true">bug 81720</a>.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em !important;">Basically when
you insert a ReferenceMark, if you put the cursor at the
edge of it (start or end), and type something, it will
expand on the reference mark instead of writing it as a
“normal text”.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em !important;">You can find
how to reproduce it in comment <a
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81720#c22"
moz-do-not-send="true">22</a>.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em !important;">I have set up
my environment, but I’m not sure where is the code that
“checks” if something is a ReferenceMark, if anything.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em !important;">Can you point
me in the right direction, please?</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em !important;">Best,</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em !important;">Phil</p>
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