https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60129
--- Comment #21 from [email protected] --- (In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #18) > (In reply to Simeon Maryasin from comment #2) > > In Print layout mode you see document as it would be printed (split to > > pages, etc), while in Web layout mode it isn't split and its formatting > > depends on window size. > > I *guess* this is exactly the reason why it's disabled: our Web view mode is > an imitation, implemented using some dynamically-changing pages with width > equal to the window, and height of 10 meters. In this case, two different > windows would conflict trying to re-format the same document to two > different page widths at the same time. > > Gülşah might have better understanding of the problem; I wonder if the > change mentioned in comment 13 was abandoned because of some conflict of > this kind? I don't see the conflict here. For example, in a web browser, you can open the same website in two different windows and see them simultaneously. If there are changes in one of them, what is the (conceptual) problem reflecting this change in the other one on Writer? The point of having two windows is, for example, being able to inspect different parts of the document at the same time. It should be independent of the viewing mode. And it would be very useful if it could be done in Web mode. For example in 'normal' mode, even if yo hide the 'in between pages' spaces, you still see a lot of information (mostly formatting) that is not relevant when you want to focus on what you write. And in many cases you want to see one section of the text (e.g. references section?) while writing on another section of the same document. That is when WEB view would be a great addition. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
