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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    Re: Behavior of overset inset creation on selection
From:       Daniel <xracoonx () gmx ! de>
Date:       2018-11-08 10:47:42
Message-ID: ps144a$kmd$1 () blaine ! gmane ! org
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On 08/11/2018 04:42, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 04:53:16PM -1000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> 
> > Indeed, it seems to me that adding the subscript automatically is a bit too much. \
> > Not everybody wants it, after all. For some reason it doesn't work like overset. \
> > I am not sure that we should hide these differences in LyX.
> 
> Makes sense.

I take it that in the vast majority of cases you want underbrace with 
subscript. And it took me a while at the beginning to figure out how it 
works in LyX. I played around with underset etc. before realising that 
the subscript works. Knowing that from the start is tricky. And removing 
the subsript is very[1] simple: just move the cursor out of it. So I am 
still in favor of adding the subscript by default and moving the cursor 
into it.

[1] I am wondering why a subscript is not just "unsubscripted" when 
backspace is pressed at the beginning of it. Maybe this is by design but 
I fail to see its virtues. However, one thing I noticed is that the 
cursor does not move to the end of a base but to its beginning when 
moving to the left from the beginning of a superscript. I am not sure 
why that is intuitive either so I suggest to change this which makes the 
previous suggestion consistent.

Daniel


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