On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 at 21:13, Federico Bruni <[email protected]> wrote:
> Il giorno lun 23 giu 2025 alle 12:31:48 +02:00:00, Hans Aikema > <[email protected]> ha scritto: > > Going by the code comments the layout in 2 columns is just a > > coincidence of your screen-width and raster layout is supposed to > > dynamically manage the number of columns in the grid based on the > > width of the viewing area, so on an infinitely wide monitor you'd have > > > > 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 > > > > and on a slighty more realistic ultrawide monitor you might get > > something like > > > > 1 | 4 | 7 > > 2 | 5 | 8 > > 3 | 6 > > > > due to the wider viewing area > > > > and on a small viewing area you'd get > > > > 1 > > 2 > > 3 > > 4 > > 5 > > 6 > > 7 > > 8 > > > > > > whereas the two pages layouts would always contain fixed number of > > columns (2) and would scale the pages to fill the available width. > > You are right, thanks! > > Then the name candidates might be: > Dynamic layout > Responsive layout > > and a tooltip should describe it better. > > I'm testing it now and it seems quite buggy. Probably nobody uses it, > but the reason may be that it's not clear what it does. > > > > > I was unaware of it, though it’s not super-useful to me with everything on one screen. The word ‘raster’ in English is borrowed from the German word for ‘screen’, and almost exclusively refers to pixels on a screen. So I think it is misapplied here. I think ‘Grid layout’ would be most intuitive for English speakers. In Raster mode you can switch between horizontal and vertical layout: 1 | 2 | 3 4 | 5 | 6 7 | 8 versus 1 | 4 | 7 2 | 5 | 8 3 | 6 Horizontal mode makes more sense to me. When I first looked at it in vertical mode (because I normally have single pages scrolling vertically), I thought it looked like a booklet, which it wasn’t. Vaughan
