Changing initial letter in a text with character style forgets the style

[Seneca]

This is quite an edge case but changing the initial letter in a word with a character style applied to it does not retain the style. Changing a letter inside the word or selecting it and retyping it from scratch retains the style correctly. Changing the initial letter in a word with a character style at the beginning of the paragraph works correctly as well.

This applies to other character styles like Bold, Bold-Italic, Small Caps if one has them created in the Styles Panel.

Please see a short video illustrating the problem.

 

 

[MikeTO]

This isn't new in the beta or even in v2.

It happens with any character attribute and at any position in the text other than at the start of a new paragraph - it's not specific to character styles. If you backspace to the start of a change in character formatting, then Affinity will change to the character formatting before that character. Backspacing deletes the hidden control codes for the formatting at the same time it deletes the character.

This isn't necessarily a bug, some apps (Apple Pages) work this way and other apps (MS Word, Apple TextEdit) work the other way. Like you, I prefer the other way but I'm used to it now.

[Seneca]

2 hours ago, MikeTO said:

Like you, I prefer the other way but I'm used to it now.

I definitely prefer the way inDesign handles it. The chances of having the first letter of a word with a character style to be different from the rest of the word are rather slim.

I call it more intelligent design. 🙂