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Originally Posted by ratinox
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.
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Well we agree on everything other than it being in the users hands. Which will ultimately be a matter of opinion and somewhat pointless to go back and forth on. Obviously neither option is right or wrong it’s just different both have their pros and cons.