HOW DO YOU OPEN NEW PARALLEL WINDOWS / PANES / PAINS

EnochBethany
EnochBethany Member Posts: 32 ✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

I just bought some Loeb Classics, which are Greek writings with facing page English translations in the printed version.  The Logos version has separate modules for Greek & English.  I want to open each (Greek & English) in parallel windows (panes, tabs or whatever) so I have them both on screen at same time.  But I cannot for the life of me figure out how to open a second pane on the screen.   Help is useless.  Tool bar is useless.  Can you open multiple windows (pains, tabs, pains) side by side? How?

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  • Fred Chapman
    Fred Chapman Member Posts: 5,899 ✭✭✭

    It is just a matter of grabbing the resource tab and dragging it to the position you want. 

    You may find this link useful

    https://wiki.logos.com/Layouts__

  • Mark Barnes
    Mark Barnes Member Posts: 15,432 ✭✭✭

    I just bought some Loeb Classics, which are Greek writings with facing page English translations in the printed version.  The Logos version has separate modules for Greek & English.  I want to open each (Greek & English) in parallel windows (panes, tabs or whatever) so I have them both on screen at same time.  But I cannot for the life of me figure out how to open a second pane on the screen.   Help is useless.  Tool bar is useless.  Can you open multiple windows (pains, tabs, pains) side by side? How?

    On the desktop, or on iPad/iPhone/Android?

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  • EnochBethany
    EnochBethany Member Posts: 32 ✭✭

    I have no idea how to grab a tab -- I never observed any grabable tabs.  I don't know why when you have one module open in a window & activate a new module, why it doesn't just appear in a new parallel window.

    I am using a MacBook.

  • EnochBethany
    EnochBethany Member Posts: 32 ✭✭

    Well, I finally got the 2 modules in parallel by opening in floating windows & selecting A link.  Then followed horrible nightmare, trying to get them to track & link & be readable.  I had to uncheck show footnotes.  At first it was making 2 columns in the English window, with only a few words per line.  Then somehow it stopped that.  I found that it could not be controlled with the scroll wheel, but down arrow worked to show next page.  It was very annoying & frustrating for some time.

  • Rosie Perera
    Rosie Perera Member Posts: 26,194 ✭✭✭✭✭

    At first it was making 2 columns in the English window, with only a few words per line.

    You probably had gotten it in multi-column view somehow. You want to be sure Columns is set to None (which will make each page flow and scroll freely rather than being page-layout view which 1 Column mode does).

    It does sound like you're new at dealing with Logos windows/panes and layouts. I would highly recommend viewing the training videos that Mark Barnes created: First Steps and Layouts. Note that the method of saving named layouts has changed slightly in Logos 5 (and 6) (those videos were made in Logos 4), but then you can look at https://www.logos.com/training/logos5/layouts to see the specifics of what is different now.