Allow same file to be viewed in two columns/rows and third column pdf viewer

[groenoord]

Describe the feature and the current behavior/state

Allow the same file to be viewed in two columns/rows similar to what is possible in Visual Studio Code+LaTeX Workshop. This is similar to a split view, but would allow the same file to be viewed. I find a productive Layout on a wide monitor is two columns of the same document and one column for the pdf viewer. See the attached screenshot from Visual Studio.

Who will benefit with this feature?

Everyone.

Any Other info

[sunderme]

the internal code structure does not allow presentation of one document in two separate views.

[hsvfan-jan]

@sunderme is this a feature that's on a roadmap for a future release or would it require too much of a rewrite? Not sure how to interpret your comment but I think having this feature would be tremendous.

I first take notes inside my document and then comment out the notes I already included in my text. If the document is getting long, I can't see both my notes and the text I'm writing. So far my workaround is to open a temporary file with the notes copied inside but that's convoluting my files a bit and is bothersome to clean up afterwards.

[octaeder]

you could add labels bookmarks 1 and 2 at corresponding positions and jump with ctrl+1and ctrl+2

[hsvfan-jan]

@octaeder Thanks for the suggestion but the purpose of having the split view would be to have them open at the same time. Reading the notes while writing the text.
I think your suggestion is to read the notes, remember them, jump to label 2 and write down the text.

[octaeder]

the line with the label shows in the label side view (to the left)

[hsvfan-jan]

@octaeder
They do show up there but I don't see how that fulfils the functionality? It's still about jumping between those two segments, not about being able to view them at the same time, right?
(FYI, I clicked on one and then the other. On macOS I didn't get using shortcuts to work. I tried cmd, option, control each and in combination with shift. I just named the labels 1 and 2 but I have several other labels in my text so perhaps that's why using shortcuts wasn't working)

[octaeder]

Well I was talking about bookmarks, sorry.

also s. context menu there

[hsvfan-jan]

Oh you meant bookmarks, gotcha. The way you described works with them now.
But I find with a lot of text in a line or just many lines in general, this fails to show all the text. For now, I think I'll stick to my workaround of having a temporary file open.
Thanks for the help, though!