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Unable to edit content inside the hat accent

Open FabioGuerra7 opened this issue 5 months ago • 2 comments

Hello, I'm reporting this issue because it's currently not possible to edit the content under the "hat" accent. If I want to make any changes to a letter or expression with a hat, I have to delete it entirely and retype it. The cursor cannot move or be placed inside the hat content, which prevents direct editing.

FabioGuerra7 avatar Aug 05 '25 12:08 FabioGuerra7

That is intentional, the idea being that a base item and its accent are a unit, like "â". Can you share an example where you would need the base to be editable separately from the accent?

arnog avatar Aug 08 '25 23:08 arnog

The idea is that the hat should only accept a single letter underneath it, right? The problem is that the hat accepts more than one character, and I can’t edit its content to remove the incorrectly added characters. The usability for having only one character under the hat is a bit tricky. If I want something like “hât,” I won’t be able to easily place the hat only over the “a,” because it will end up covering “ha” instead of just the “a.” Can you reproduce this on your side?

FabioGuerra7 avatar Aug 14 '25 11:08 FabioGuerra7