this will "columnize" your long text.
long text, especially on large screens is really hard to read.
thats why in the "real world" newspapers use columns to layout text.

with this script you just paste the text and specify the numbers of columns.
it will split the text into more reader-friendly chunks.

“string to columns” makes use of the built-in PHP functions ceil( ), strlen( ), stripcslashes( ), substr( ), strpos( ) and strtolower( ).

01 <?php
02 
03 $marginpercent = 3;
04 $topmarginpx = 200;
05 $bgcolor = 'whitesmoke';
06 $paddingpx = 5;
07 $seperators = array(' ' => 'words', '. ' => 'sentences', '<p>' => 'paragraphs');
08 if($_POST['string'])
09 {
10     if($_POST['column']) $columns = $_POST['column'];
11     else $columns = 3;
12     if($_POST['seperator']) $seperator = $_POST['seperator'];
13     else $seperator = ' ';
14     $widthpercent = ceil(((100-(2*$marginpercent))/$columns)-2);
15     $stringlen = strlen($_POST['string']);
16     $percolumn = ceil($stringlen/$columns);
17     for($x = 0; $x < $columns; $x++)
18     {
19         $leftpx = (($x*ceil((100-(2*$marginpercent))/$columns))+$marginpercent);
20         $string = stripcslashes(substr($_POST['string'],($percolumn*$x),$percolumn));
21         $nextstring = stripcslashes(substr($_POST['string'],($percolumn*($x+1)),$percolumn));
22         $nextpos = strpos(strtolower($nextstring),strtolower($seperator));
23         $nextword = substr($nextstring,0,($nextpos+strlen($seperator)));
24         $string = substr($string,$oldpos,$percolumn);
25         $string = $string.$nextword;
26         $oldpos = $nextpos+strlen($seperator);
27         echo '
28     <div style="position:absolute; left:'.$leftpx.'%; 
29                 top:'.$topmarginpx.'px; padding:'.$paddingpx.'px; 
30                 width:'.$widthpercent.'%; background-color:'.$bgcolor.';">
31         ';
32         if($x > 0 && $_POST['heightpx']) echo '
33         <div style="height:'.$_POST['heightpx'].'px; width:'.$widthpercent.'%;">&nbsp;</div>';
34         echo $string;
35         echo '
36     </div>
37 ';
38     }
39 }else{
40     echo '
41     <div style="position:absolute; left:'.$marginpercent.'%; 
42                 top:'.$topmarginpx.'px; padding:'.$paddingpx.'px; 
43                 width:'.(100-(2*$marginpercent)).'%; background-color:'.$bgcolor.';">
44         <form method="post" action="'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'">
45         <textarea name="string" cols="70" rows="20"></textarea><br>
46         <input type="text" name="column" value="3" size="3"> columns | text split at 
47         <input type="text" name="seperator" size="3">
48         <select name="preset" onchange="seperator.value=this.value">';
49      foreach($seperators as $k => $v)
50     {
51         echo '
52             <option value="'.$k.'">'.$v.'</option>';
53     }        
54     echo '
55         </select> | 
56         <input type="text" name="heightpx" value="" size="3"> topmargin on column 1+ | 
57         <input type="submit" value="columnize">
58         </form>
59     </div>
60 ';
61 }
62  
63 ?>