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Originally Posted by MGlitch
It's your assertion that one is more important than all the others, my assertion is this is entirely subjective and should be as much in the hands of the user as it possibly can be.
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No, and I apologize if I gave you that impression. My assertions are that what goes where is based on arbitrary criteria and that this should not be in the hands of the user. The former because for our thousand-odd years of print books there is no uniform standard, no "this is the one true best way". The latter because it is unnecessary complexity in the UI, unnecessary complexity in the code underneath that needs to accomodate all combinations of all options, and unnecessary complexity in testing all of the combinations with sufficient representative samples.
If you cannot demonstrate a practical reason for having these options, if the sum of your argument amounts to "because some users might want to do it", then this remains in the realm of the purely cosmetic.