Hi.

All versions of Inkscape I guess behaves this way. Example on how to make this behaviour clearly visible:

• Write a simple text, "123" size 20
• Make character 1 superscript and 3 subscript.
• Select character 1.
• Type "A" (or whatever character you want, as long as it overwrites "1")
• Non-expected behaviour: The new character has lost the superscript atribute, and have same font size as "2". Expected behaviour here is that the new character also are formatted as superscript.
• This behaviour also occurs when trying to overwrite "3" wit another character - it lost it's subscript attribute.

A'm I the only person that feel bugged by this behaviour?

Is there really no better workaround for this?

I don't use those options much - hardly ever. But I agree that it seems illogical, and I would consider it a bug. I guess you've searched for existing bug reports already? If not, you're welcome to search, or you're welcome to submit a new bug report. Or if you don't have a LP account, I'd be glad to do it for you.

I don't even see that there is a workaround. I guess you just have to re-set as sub or superscript. Let's see what happens to the XML....

Ok yes, if you look in the XML Editor, you can see the svg:tspan id element disappear when you edit the super/subscript on canvas. It sure has the "buggy" feel to it, to me.