https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107184
--- Comment #13 from Seán Ó Séaghdha <[email protected]> --- A mode (mono) switch would probably go a long way towards a solution. The problem is how the non-mono mode would work. What’s really needed is a dialog that allows the user to select a whole sentence and arrange it as necessary, grouping or ungrouping characters/words as they see fit, in a clear and straightforward way. Asian language users certainly *can* do everything now, but going in an out of the dialog many times is very tedious and slow. The way I use it is undoubtedly a minority use: adding phonetics to non-Asian languages. This can be extremely painful at times due to LO’s assumptions about words. For example it’s common practice to hyphenate Gaulish or Ogham words to highlight their components, but even if you use a non-breaking hyphen, LO will assume that all the parts are separate words, e.g. CUNA‑MAGLI → CUNA | ‑ | MAGLI. Attempting to edit the text in the dialog corrupts the document text, so there are only non-obvious solutions (select a single word & edit it later, select nothing and type the word in the dialog). See bug 154724 for a worse case with a Proto-Indo-European word like *h₁ek̑u̯os. It would all be a lot more understandable if LO didn’t second guess what you were trying to do. Even its second guessing is wrong though, as a non-breaking hyphen should not break a word. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
