Writer auto-surrounds selection with parentheses or quotation marks; why?

Hi there,

I’m seeing unfamiliar behavior and I don’t know how to disable it.

Say I have some text like this.

Then, using the mouse, I select the word “text”, and type “(”.

I’d expect the word text to be replaced with an opening parenthesis:

Say I have some ( like this.

Instead, Writer inserts an opening parenthesis before “text” and a closing one after:

Say I have some (text) like this.

Mutatis mutandis, the same thing happens if I type a quotation mark instead of a parenthesis.

Why might this be happening?


Version: 24.8.2.1 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 480(Build:1)
OS: Linux 6.11; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-GB (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Debian package version: 4:24.8.2-1~bpo12+1

@Moshpirit you might be interested in this, going by your 2023 question: Is there any way to put a piece of text in between quotation marks/parenthesis by pressing keys?

New in 24.8.:




https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/24.8

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Brilliant, thank-you!