Format menu options should respect Markdown/Shortcodes mode about novelwriter HOT 2 CLOSED

This is a feature of the toolbar itself, and decides which formatting signal it sends to the editor. It is not a part of the implementation of the menu, and I seriously doubt having an equivalent toggle menu entry in the format menu is going to be more user friendly as a lot of people don't check the menus. I am deliberately trying to make the UI less menu-dependant.

I also don't intend shortcodes to replace regular markdown emphasis syntax. The duplications are there to solve corner cases and special cases where markdown emphasis cannot work due to limitations in the syntax.

If the toggle button is confusing to people, which remains to be seen but may very well be the case, my solution would be to remove it and just add the extra three buttons. Complicating the existing emphasis functionality is not a good solution.

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Is this a sensible alternative toolbar?

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