https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161649
--- Comment #7 from jollytall <[email protected]> --- Sorry, but I still disagree. I tried to do, as suggested above, i.e. to use only one mode or the other. If I use only the command window then it works, but using only the rendered window, I could not make even after an hour of trying the simple formula of the concentration of hydrogen ion. I tried the following keyboard sequences in the editor window: c_H^+ but then the ? remains there indicating that after the + sign it would need something. c_H^"+" but then the " marks remain there various combinations with {, but then it is immediately understood as a visual lbrace, rbrace. So, unless there is another trick to make it happen, my conclusion is that it is not possible to do what you suggest, i.e. either use the rendered window or the command editor but never mix them. The only way, how I could remove the ? after the + sign was to go to the command window and add an extra space at the end of the line, what also can be removed immediately. Then the ? goes away, although the command seems to be the same after adding and removing the space. Then, I tried to extend my formula (again strictly in the rendered window!) to the difference of the hydrogen and hydroxide ion. So, I went to the end of the formula and typed: -c_OH^- Again the question-mark was there after the - sign (not after the + sign, that is gone by now). So, just like above, I have to go to the command window, and add a space at the end. Then the disaster happens. Although the command does not change (other than the extra space typed) and the ? disappears after the - sign, also the so-far correct first part of the rendered formula changes; the + sign of the H superscript jumps to the superscript of c. That is wrong. To make it even worse undo (Ctrl-Z and alike) do not make it back. I think this is definitely an error. A bit of fun fact. So, I try to fix the H+ in the rendered window (as suggested not touching the command window when possible). Deleted the + sign from the superscript of c and went to H and typed ^+ adding back the + sign to where it should be. Then again the ? appeared, so I had to go to the command window and add an extra space to remove the question mark. That goes and now the - sign of the OH jumps. And so on. So, there is a bug from a user point of view. If you can make the above only using the rendered window, please let me know, although even then I would think that it is wrong if the two windows cannot be used mixed. As the original bug report was about the change of the syntax, you might want to have a separate bug reported for the above, but I think it is all interlinked. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
