Suggestion for Reading view
Reading view is one of my favorite features in logos 4.
I have some suggestions regarding this feature which I hope will be in future release.
It has view option to choose the followings:
1. display one or two pages (useful if I have a large screen monitor vs. laptop's screen)
2. display in adjustable size in A4 format instead of fixed width format. The extra space outside the text area should be in darker or dark color.
3. change font size.
4. read aloud (optional since I probably will not be using this in reading view).
Great works.
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I think that a multi-column approach would be excellent (sorta like your one or two pages idea, but more scalable)...sorta like the Global Bible Reader and the homepage layout. It seems like Bob hinted at this in some other post.
A few years ago he directed all the newsgroup people to look at the New York Time (I think) columned web layout. Shortly thereafter they released the GBR with multiple columns and scalable font. And now we see a similar setup on the homepage. I doubt they went through all that trouble to learn to do that for the homepage only....so I hope that we'll see columns and scalable font in the reading view in the near future. Logos guys, am I close?
Jacob Hantla
Pastor/Elder, Grace Bible Church
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Forgot to mention in my previous post is the ability to do visual markup in reading view.0
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3. change font size.
4. read aloud (optional since I probably will not be using this in reading view).
You can currently do both of these in Reading View. The Toolbar auto-hides, so you might not see it. Just move your mouse up to the top left hand corner, and it will appear, allowing you to zoom in or out and start/stop the Read Aloud feature.
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Agreed on multi column layout for reading view. Looking forward to trying out reading view on my netbook now that it has finally finished indexing everything after a *very long time*.0
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1. display one or two pages (useful if I have a large screen monitor vs. laptop's screen).
2. display in adjustable size in A4 format instead of fixed width format. The extra space outside the text area should be in darker or dark color.
3. change font size.
4. read aloud (optional since I probably will not be using this in reading view).I think that a multi-column approach would be excellent (sorta like your one or two pages idea, but more scalable)...sorta like the Global Bible Reader and the homepage layout. It seems like Bob hinted at this in some other post.
YES to all your suggestions. I also like Reading view and its (future) potential.
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Agreed on multi column layout for reading view.
Yes! At least 2 column view! I like to have it as a regular book (you might add even flipping of pages animation [:)] ). Visual Markups are must, all other things are good but not have to be. Reading view is great feature, by the way.
Bohuslav
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Something else I'd like to see, which was present in Logos 3 but doesn't seem to be in the beta, is the ability to use the space bar as a a "page down" key when reading in a resource. This is a semi-convention in lots of windows programs that I miss here.
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