On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 08:51:56AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've been using LyX for six years now, and I find > > > > - Layout -> Document > > - Layout -> Paragraph > > - Layout -> Character > > > > very logical now. > > Interestingly, over my many years of using LyX, I've watched other word > processing programs consolidate their formatting functions under a > > "Format ->" > > menu item. The rest of the universe has been moving toward LyX's way of doing
Some content from Larry ! :) Yes, the Format menu has become pretty widely used. My earliest designs involved such a change in name (the functionality of the menus really are fairly similar). In the end, though, I found we could avoid the extra top-level menu altogether, because there were moroe logical/useful places for all the items. > things, not distributing the functionality across the interface. Any permutation is a distribution of some kind. This change in particular reflects the general move to an object-verb interface instead of a verb-object interface. Menus in general tend towards object-verb order. Similarly, frequency rate of functions are better grouped now. As by functionality: the "selection parameters" dialogs are grouped at the bottom of the Edit menu, in the context-sensitive area. regards john
