ctrl-a then choosing a font (it appears in the font box in the toolbar). when I stroke backspace, anywhere in my document, the font swaps to another (the default one for instance) I can't get keeping my font along my work and need to reset it every backspace hit.
Why not use paragraph styles instead of brittle direct formatting? https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Styles_and_Formatting Set to NEEDINFO. Change back to UNCONFIRMED, if you are not happy with styles. Change to RESOLVED WORKSFORME, if you are happy with styles.
Dear Bug Submitter, This bug has been in NEEDINFO status with no change for at least 6 months. Please provide the requested information as soon as possible and mark the bug as UNCONFIRMED. Due to regular bug tracker maintenance, if the bug is still in NEEDINFO status with no change in 30 days the QA team will close the bug as INSUFFICIENTDATA due to lack of needed information. For more information about our NEEDINFO policy please read the wiki located here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Bugzilla/Fields/Status/NEEDINFO If you have already provided the requested information, please mark the bug as UNCONFIRMED so that the QA team knows that the bug is ready to be confirmed. Thank you for helping us make LibreOffice even better for everyone! Warm Regards, QA Team MassPing-NeedInfo-Ping-20170502
This behavior was caused by DMath changing backspace action. I corrected back to default and all was right again.
Ok, thanks. Closing.