Feature request: split view

[Eyal Redler]

Split view is complex but it does look like something that is very highly requested. This feature is 100% sure to appear in Mellel, question is when, we'll consider making that soon.

[Amontillado]

A variant on split screen view would be multiple independent windows open on the same document. If that were accomplished via the os's document hand-off mechanism, perhaps you could get two features for the price of one - multiple views, and handoff to iPad.

[psychomachine]

we really, really need this. anybody working on longer documents — let alone dissertations, books etc. — knows how important this functionality is.

[caw]

Mellel is a superb tool for writing a dissertation with 3 caveats

1. If it's all maths, use LaTeX
2. no emacs keys (yeah, I know... broken record)
3. no split view


For me, it (Mellel) is still the best tool of offer, but a split view would be a boon.

[Fire Angel]

We got it! And I must say it's a particularly good implementation of the feature. Thank you to the programmer(s)!

[syardney]

A question about split view: in the Mellel newsletter that Eyal sent out, he described this as a "vertical split view," and indeed in his screen shot the window is divided vertically. But in my version of Mellel (6.0.2, running on Mac OS Sonoma 14.2.1), I am getting a horizontal split view. Is there some way to toggle this? Vertical split view would be more convenient.

[DavidH]

Yes, as of 6.0.3, using the menu command View > Dual View Side-by-Side introduces a vertical split and changes the appearance and function of the Toggle button to produce or eliminate such a split each time you use it. View > Dual View Stacked gives you a Toggle button that alternately produces or eliminates a horizontal split.

[Eyal Redler]

Indeed, as David mentioned. Vertical split was introduced with Mellel 6.0.3, it is not typical that we introduce new features in a minor version but this feature was planned for the initial 6.0.0 release but we didn't have time and we didn't want to wait until 6.1 to add it.
I also want to recommend setting your "check for updates" frequency to daily, if you are on Mellel 6.0.2, for example, the upgrade to 6.0.3 will always be free - this is true for any version, as long as none of the first two numbers of the version change, the update is always free so there is no reason to miss out on bug fixes and the occasional feature we add to the minor versions.