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daubnet · 10-11-2011, 02:05 PM

Commands from the Format and Insert menus are actually editing commands, so they can easily become part of the Edit menu. This is fine if - and only if - there are just a few. MS-Word (and LibreOffice as well) allows you to insert so many different things into a document that it really needed an extra menu.

So let's count what we currently have: 3 commands in "Insert", one from "Tools" and three new candidates which in 0.4 were just available in the Book View's context menu: Add blank chapter, Add blank style sheet, Add from File. That gives me a total of 7 commands.

The current "Edit" menu has 8 commands. While I think that a total of 15 is still fine, there is a good chance of more items being added to the menu over time, which might make it necessary to split them into two menus again.

The Format menu could have a submenu with the H1-H6 styles in it, plus some items to switch from LTR to RTL. Alternatively, those could be made available in a format dialog.

10-11-2011, 02:05 PM	#8
daubnet Member Posts: 18 Karma: 1314 Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Hamburg, Germany Device: iPad	Commands from the Format and Insert menus are actually editing commands, so they can easily become part of the Edit menu. This is fine if - and only if - there are just a few. MS-Word (and LibreOffice as well) allows you to insert so many different things into a document that it really needed an extra menu. So let's count what we currently have: 3 commands in "Insert", one from "Tools" and three new candidates which in 0.4 were just available in the Book View's context menu: Add blank chapter, Add blank style sheet, Add from File. That gives me a total of 7 commands. The current "Edit" menu has 8 commands. While I think that a total of 15 is still fine, there is a good chance of more items being added to the menu over time, which might make it necessary to split them into two menus again. The Format menu could have a submenu with the H1-H6 styles in it, plus some items to switch from LTR to RTL. Alternatively, those could be made available in a format dialog.