Sorry for the late reply - mail-archive.com has today an enormous delay.
> I'm planning support for this myself for a long time. And even though I'm
> using a layout construct such as you proposal for my personal needs as well, I
> think this is the wrong approach. *matter should be implemented in analogy to
> appendix, not as a layout.
I agree with you that \*matter should be set via the document menu because they are part of the
document structure, but not that they should appear like the appendix. I don't like how Appendix is
visualized - the red border is more confusing than that it helps. From the visualization point of
view, I would like to have \*matter and also \appendix as I proposed in my patch. There's no need
for a rather long border around large text parts. I mean in printed books there is also only once a
heading that now the appendix starts and that's it, so why should we permanently display that this
text line is inside the appendix?
So what about this?: \*matter is set via the document menu, but appears as proposed only once in the
text and in the outliner/TOC
> Also, both appendix and the *matters should be
> somehow visible in the outliner, so that sections can easily be moved in and
> outside the diverse *matters as well as the appendix.
That would indeed be useful. Richard's todays new InTOC feature will make this
possible as far as I saw.
regards Uwe
