Mikhail Sobolev wrote:
IIRC, research shows that text presented in portrait mode is comprehended faster and more completely than when presented in landscape. Similarly, sidebars, toolbars, status bars, etc., provide visual distractions that slow reading down and affect comprehension. You can see that Microsoft believes in this research by checking out the Reading Layout view in MS Word, btw.As for the rotation, there are three possibilities:
1. Gtk+ rotation, it's quite suboptimal :) My friend is making some text
reader, and he found that gtk+ primitive behaves quite differently on
different platforms (he was checking a desktop computer, a notebook, and
his zaurus with pdaxrom).
2. Quite standard extension -- Xrandr as it was mentioned in the other
post, but this is not available (as far as I understood due to the
memory constraints).
3. Not so standard extension. And this seems to become available
eventually. Most likely not in the first version of the Nokia Internet
Table software 2005 edition (or whatever it's called).
Regards,
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Misha
So I look forward to the day when a booklength text can be read on Internet Tablets in full-screen portrait mode. Hopefully that nonstandard extension won't take too long to arrive. But I'm excited by what is here already (well, just about). And very happy about Nils and Florian's port of Plucker. I think even without rotation it presents the highest quality reading experience of any e-book reader.
Roger
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Electric Forest (digital libraries: http://altheim.com/ef/)
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