Keyboard shortcut to create a room in up/down directions

[dfabulich]

You can use shift-arrow to create a room in a direction. But there's no shortcut to create a room up or down from the current room.

Perhaps shift-U or shift-D?

[jeremydouglass]

Or perhaps Shift-"+" and Shift-"-" (actually _ ) -- so the view navigation and room navigation are the same key set, but with shift.

[henck]

Sure, but where would the room go? To the top left of the current room? Top right? There isn't an obvious direction.

[jeremydouglass]

where would the room go? To the top left of the current room? Top right?

The convention in IF maps historically has been "where-ever it fits." Assuming that a user has added their compass rooms already before adding an up room, one behavior might be:

if user creates up-room:
  if no room in north, place up-room north;
  else if no room in ne, place up-room ne;
  else if no room in nw, place up-room nw;
  else place up-room north with offset; // overlaps north room with offset, user can then drag