Supercscript and circumflex with minus sign

[turlupouet]

Superscript and circumflex with minus sign
when typing circumflex (^) followed by one character, it put it on top (superscript)
but when typing minus sign (-) after the circumflex, it just hide the circumflex and nothing happen.
it is disturbing for typing of numbers in scientific form or unities.
see attached example

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: libreoffice-core 1:3.3.3-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.47-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jul 25 11:43:14 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[penalvch (penalvch)]

turlupouet, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. Following the directions from:

http://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Making_Text_Superscript_or_Subscript

this issue is unreproducible via the Terminal:

cd ~/Desktop && wget -c https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/815807/+attachment/2230904/+files/superscript_and_circumflex.odt -O info.odt && lowriter -nologo info.odt

I could not highlight any text combination and get text to disappear. Could you please provide step by step directions on how you got text to disappear?

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04

apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer
libreoffice-writer:
  Installed: 1:3.3.3-1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1:3.3.3-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.3.3-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-proposed/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-updates/main i386 Packages
     1:3.3.2-1ubuntu4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages

[turlupouet (chazeremi)]

ok, sorry for misunderstanding
first: the normal behaviour
type circumflex and one character, for example: ^9
the combination of ^ and 9 is automatically changed into 9 (in superscript character)

second: the "bug"
type circumflex and minus: ^-
nothing appears instead of the superscripted minus (-) character

For example, if you want to write "50 g per square meter", you type: 50 g.m^-2
but it gives: 50 g.m2
-> nothing is superscripted and the minus is disappeared

[penalvch (penalvch)]

turlupouet, as per http://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Making_Text_Superscript_or_Subscript typing something as you described is not normal behavior. Could you please provided step by step details on how to cause this typing replacement to occur?

[turlupouet (chazeremi)]

you are right, actually it is just with the succession of circumflex (^) and one number
it works only with numbers not with letters, it works with the symbol plus (+) but not with minus (-)
but it is very useful when you often use powered numbers (exponential, scientific numbers, units...)

if you type ^ and two numbers, only the first is superscripted, the second is in normal font

it seems to be automatic change of font during typing
there is nothing special to do, the change is made by LO, not by me and this behaviour looks normal to me (just need to be improved), it was like that since the beginning
I looked in Auto-correction settings but nothing about that

I don't know how to explain better

[turlupouet (chazeremi)]

http://help.libreoffice.org/Basic/Cap_Operator_Runtime

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

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Please upgrade to the latest version and re-test. If the bug is still reproducible, please note that and set the status back to New.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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