> A matter of taste probably. Personally, I find the information helpful if I'm
> somewhere inside a rather large appendix/frontmatter/backmatter. I agree
> though, that the mainmatter should not be marked, since it is the "normal"
> form. So what I have in mind is something like:

Well, that's exactly what I don't want ;-) So you are right, it's a matter of 
taste.

>> 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
>
> We could make the appearance custimizable easily. After all, this is just
> about drawing two lines or not.

It is, but it seems that this was the reason, why we don't have it yet, so lets make a decision now and implement it.

>> That would indeed be useful. Richard's todays new InTOC feature will make
>> this possible as far as I saw.
>
> I'm not sure. That would mean that *matter and appendix should be implemented
> as insets. I don't think this is the way to go, technically.

Why not? Everything that currently appears in the TOC is an inset or 
environment.
What else do you have in mind?

regards Uwe

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