>> Why not? Everything that currently appears in the TOC is an inset or >> environment. > > But this is conceptually different than everything else in the TOC. It's not a > paragraph style.
What's the difference for the user? Isn't the appearance the only important thing? So when we add it to the Document menu, we fulfill our guidelines to treat \appendix and \*matter the same way. It shouldn't be important what technical solution we choose to insert \*matter to the LaTeX output and to the TOC. I'm arguing because the current \appendix implementation is in my opinion not a good one and when \appendix cleaned up, we should consider to change this also to an inset.
(Btw. when you write plain LaTeX using Kile etc., you also only see \*matter in your document, so this is the same as for \foot and the like. OK, perhaps not the best example, but you see what I mean.)
regards Uwe
