Hello again. We’ve seen what split screen can do for us, and we know we can customize the fonts for the top and bottom (or left and right) screen to match our preferences.
Your preferences may not be mine, but generally I want my split screens to synchronize. The top (or left) screen is the boss, so that when you page back and forth in that screen, your split screen follows what you’re doing.
The synchronization feature is called “Window Sync,” and it’s such an important feature, it’s on the main gear menu directly accessible from the top of the screen.
(From now on, when I say “top screen,” just assume “left screen” if you’re in landscape mode.)
A longstanding bug, or design, in OliveTree, is that when you enter split screen mode, the bottom screen won’t synchronize until you page the top screen back and forth. I find this inconvenient, but that’s where we are right now.
Another confusing design item about split screen is that due to OliveTree’s design of how the bottom screen is to be used, you don’t open resources in the bottom screen the same way you open them in the top screen.
On the top screen, you access the books directly from the bar at the top of the window.
On the bottom screen, if you want just a particular book, you have to hit the “Parallel” icon at the bottom of the screen, and then it will show you a list of books you can access on the bottom screen (it’s the same list of books).
If you hit Parallel but you are already in a particular book, hit the Back icon and then the list of books will be displayed.
