BUG: 5.2a: Reading View ignores Columns setting [RESOLVED: not a bug]

I open The Psalms as Christian Worship in Reading View, and it always shows as many columns as it can fit on my screen (5) no matter what I had set as the Columns setting in the panel menu. E.g., here it's set at just 1 column:

But when I press F11 to go into Reading View, it shows 5 columns. This is regardless of whether I start out with it in a docked tab or a floating window.

And in The New Testament and the People of God, it's the opposite problem. No matter what my Columns setting, Reading View always only shows one column, even though there's plenty of room for more on my screen. Here, for example, it's set to 2 columns in a floating window:

But when I open Reading View it reverts to 1 column:

I've tried a few other books, and the former problem (Reading View always showing too many columns) appears to happen most of the time (NTPG is the only one I've found so far that forces 1 column in Reading View). I have yet to find a book that does what I expect: maintain the number of columns. I tried it on a Personal Book as well. Same problem.

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Graham Criddle

And in The New Testament and the People of God, it's the opposite problem

For me it behaves as the same as your Psalms example

and in Reading view

Interesting - old - comment from Melissa - http://community.logos.com/forums/p/30676/227276.aspx#227276 - which suggests that going into Reading mode switches the columns setting to Auto which is consistent with what I am seeing

So it looks as though your NTPG behaviour is the anomaly here.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/583109#Comment_583109

And in The New Testament and the People of God, it's the opposite problem

For me it behaves as the same as your Psalms example

Ah, I see now that Reading View has its own (separate) memory of what the column setting was, and it defaults to Auto. I must have set NTPG to None in Reading View at some point in the past, and it had dutifully remembered it. Now that I've discovered you can get the panel menu in Reading View by moving the mouse way up to the top (I must have known that at some point in the past in order to change the setting in NTPG, but I'd forgotten about it!) I can change it to something else, and it is indeed remembered.

So I guess this isn't a bug.

Never mind.