Feature request… It would be great to have Dorico use the F11 “Full screen” mode be able to span two monitors side by side. It’s beautifully free of distractions (especially when you remove the top zone), but just too narrow a field of vision for my taste anyway!
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I personally don’t like spanning across monitors, as the gap and bezel interrupt my flow. I keep the music on one and all my main Options dialogs on the other. That way, when I open one, I can always see the effects just by hitting Apply.
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Or Write on one and Engrave/Play on the other… 
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IMHO it is an interface design shortcoming of Dorico that it is even necessary to arrange windows in this or a similar way in order to enable a preview without exiting the libraries. I would rather welcome if Dorico could offer a native automatic side by side interface: Option library on the right, score on the left. Usually one doesn’t need the regular interface when using the libraries, but one could surely use an immediate view of their effects on the score.
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If you have enough screen real estate to see both on the same monitor, that’s good, but even with a 4k 28-inch monitor, the score would be too small for me in that scenario to work well. To each their own…
I’ve done this, too, but that was when I was stuck in my Finale routine of going back and forth between Staff and Page view. Since I’ve embraced the Dorico way, I don’t need to do that much anymore.
On the Mac, you can stretch a window across two displays (with certain system settings); but Full Screen mode (with no “window” as such) is strictly one display per app. That’s an OS-limitation. From a quick Google, Windows seems to be set up the same way.
So it may not be something that the team can easily implement.
I may be out of date, but from comments made here before, there are (or have been) some bugs in the Qt framework relating to dual displays; particularly on Windows, and particularly when they have different scalings.
On a personal note: I remember using Finale on a Mac SE, with a 9-inch display of 512 x 342 pixels!
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Well, here it’s called Write and Engrave, and I couldn’t live without having both open at the same time… 
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That may well be the work flow that works best for you, but after three decades of back and forth under Finale, I find the whole thing works best if I stick to one mode in Dorico until the task is complete. I just work left to right, going from Setup to Write to Engrave to Print in that order, finishing one before moving to another. Yes, I occasionally have to back up to one to make something work better in the next, but as I learn the software, I find that happening less often.
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