On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 06:19:19PM +0100, Fred Hucht wrote:
>
> As LaTeX2e also supports \{front|main|back}matter, which are switching
> command similar to \appendix, my (second) proposal would be to add the
> menu
>
> Layout->Character...
> Paragraph...
> Sectioning (or so)
> Document...
>
> Sectioning could either be a submenu containing
> ->Start of Appendix
> Start of Frontmatter
> Start of Mainmatter
> Start of Backmatter
>
> or, even better, a dialog box, where one also could do things like
> change the header/footer with markboth{}, reset the page counter, and
> so on, i.e. all things that are between the paragraph and document
> level.
>
After all, Word's got it. Word may be icky, but in this case, that might be
a logical idea. We'd just have to be careful to keep all of the section
changes WYSIWYM, not WYSIWYG.
-Ak
