On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 09:28:12AM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 08:58:18PM +0200, Martin Vermeer wrote: > > Sort of. I.e. the pop-up works, \displaystyle (and the other styles) > > work, but \mathcal etc. only work one character at a time. > > That's intended behaviour. > > > But I feel that's a mathed problem rather than a front-end UI issue, > > it's the same if you type them manually. Looking into that now. > > Exactly. > > The reason is that math identifiers are usually just one char, so removing > the need to switch back after each change actually save keystrokes/clicks. > If you need a dozen in a row you can type the text, mark it, and apply the > font change.
But this inconsistent with the behavior outside of mathed. Furthermore, for math text mode (\textrm or \mbox), you do want to type more than one char (BTW, math text mode seems to be broken).
