Enhancement Idea: Combination Horizontal and Vertical Split Screen in Lyx

[Louis Hiener]

Good afternoon,

I am an embedded systems and signal processing development engineer,
and have been using Lyx in my daily work since 2001. I use it both for
capturing my daily notes (technical and otherwise), as well as for
developing technical documentation.

As average screen size has increased, I have likewise increased my use of
split screen modes. Alas, Lyx currently has a limitation that once you
split the screen in a given direction (vertically into left and right
panes, or horizontally into upper and lower panes), you can only further
split it in the same direction. What would be very useful (to me, at least)
would be the ability to split each split screen pane in either direction.
My primary use case (with a large landscape oriented display) would be to
split the screen vertically into left and right halves, and then split one
or both vertical half-panes horizontally into upper and lower sub-panes.
I'm envisioning something similar to VS Code's editor layout commands
(accessed from the View | Editor Layout menu as "Split Up", "Split Down",
"Split Left" and "Split Right"), or Emacs' ability to split any editor pane
horizontally by entering ctrl-x 2 or vertically by entering ctrl-x 3.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Lou Hiener
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