Text Reader

willis3000 · 2006-01-30 06:52:59

Hi All,

I really liked the reading mode in the new Office Word where they split the screen into two pages and you can adjust the text size, it's especially useful in reading long texts. I was wondering if there're any program that can achieve similar results in Linux?

Thanks!

Will

jellywerker · 2006-01-30 20:25:26

erm, nano or vi using screen?

T-Dawg · 2006-01-30 20:55:03

moved to Workstation User

SleepyDog · 2006-01-30 22:50:24

cat

T-Dawg · 2006-01-30 22:55:47

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willis3000 · 2006-01-31 15:39:21

SleepyDog wrote:

cat

I was thinking of something like this:

I feel easier reading text in narrower columns, but having a single column seems a waste of screen space and needs lots of scrolling. It seems that any xpdf-based viewers works similarly in dual, non-continuous layout, but you can't paste text directly into pdf which is a hassle. In this case the dual column layout solves both problems.

I could do similar things in abiword by using two columns on a landscape A4 page and read in print preview mode, but longer text like novels from Project Gutenberg (call me a cheapass) takes forever to paste in abiword for some reason. It'd be nice to have a hack in vi.

Dusty · 2006-01-31 17:44:14

Hmm.... I don't know how, but I don't think it should be that difficult to write a vim script to automatically split and scroll two windows. Its a neat thought. I just narrow my window so that the column width is smaller and read in one. :-D

Dusty

T-Dawg · 2006-01-31 19:30:45

maybe you can do something with vimdiff. Its part of the vim package.

codemac · 2006-02-01 09:30:08

Or just use vim.

Open vim in your terminal.

Type CTL + w v for a vertical split.

Type :e <filename>

Hold Ctrl and press w twice to flip between the windows, and type :e <filename> again in the second one.

Press PgDwn in the second window.

Type :set scrollbind

press Ctrl w w and type :set scrollbind in the first window.

press PgDwn twice for every two pages you want to read at a time.

You can make more windows with more Ctrl w's and as long as you :set scrollbind , every window you want will scroll simultaneously.

Vim = fun happiness.

T-Dawg · 2006-02-01 12:05:39

wow that rocks! Thanks for the info codemac

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