Text in columns

Text in columns
Eudora Tip #232/21-July-2004

This isn’t exactly a Eudora Tip but it might help you with your emails all the same.

I receive some longer newsletters by email. An example would be the NewsScan Daily, which is likely to be about 1600 words.

Sometimes I just don’t feel like reading it in Eudora, where I have my text size set to smallish. I don’t want to go fussing with Eudora’s settings just to read one message so I use the magnificent Tofu (150 Kb download).

If you’ve never come across Tofu it’s absolutely worth a look and what’s more it’s free. Tofu lays out text in columns and you scroll sideways to read the next column.

When you install Tofu it adds a Services menu item to read text in columns. Select the body of your Eudora message and go to the Eudora menu, choose Services, and then View in Columns (or Command – Shift – T). The screenshot shows this. As always, click on the thumbnail for a larger version. Note that I’ve cut a chunk out of the middle of the Services menu and message to make the screenshot sohorter.

Switch to Tofu and you’ll see a blank window. That’s because the current version of Tofu somehow manages to put the text on a second window behind the first. Close that blank window though and there’s your text, all nice and readable. Note that Tofu has some preferences in the usual place where you can set your preferred fonts and sizes.