But why is that feature useful/desirable? ("Because other software has
it" is not a great argument).
In my opinion, that's a horrible viewing mode from an ergonomy
viewpoint, what with pages that were meant to be right-side showing
left-side half of the time, and with the bottom of page n being next to
the top of page n+2 so that the flow of reading is a constant succession
of scrolling movements both horizontally and vertically. This is not
what a book looks like either -- an actual book, conceptually, looks a
lot more like the "horizontal view" mode that xournal has.
Is there really much benefit to a two-page-stacked-vertically view
compared to either vertical continuous or horizontal continuous view
modes already available?
Denis
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It's useful for keeping multiple pages at once visible on a large enough screen in a way that leaves vertical space for other windows. Neither continuous view nor horizontal view are suitable for this - continuous view stacks vertically, so you probably can't see more than one page at once, horizontal view needs to be expanded, well, horizontally, and doesn't leave much space at the sides for a full-height window.
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Oops, this was supposed to be a feature request...
But why is that feature useful/desirable? ("Because other software has
it" is not a great argument).
In my opinion, that's a horrible viewing mode from an ergonomy
viewpoint, what with pages that were meant to be right-side showing
left-side half of the time, and with the bottom of page n being next to
the top of page n+2 so that the flow of reading is a constant succession
of scrolling movements both horizontally and vertically. This is not
what a book looks like either -- an actual book, conceptually, looks a
lot more like the "horizontal view" mode that xournal has.
Is there really much benefit to a two-page-stacked-vertically view
compared to either vertical continuous or horizontal continuous view
modes already available?
Denis
It's useful for keeping multiple pages at once visible on a large enough screen in a way that leaves vertical space for other windows. Neither continuous view nor horizontal view are suitable for this - continuous view stacks vertically, so you probably can't see more than one page at once, horizontal view needs to be expanded, well, horizontally, and doesn't leave much space at the sides for a full-height window.