In Tofu, text is arranged in columns, and each column is only as high as your window. So lines are nice and narrow, they don't move about vertically, plus your text is now in easy-to-digest chunks. You just scroll from column to column horizontally, and feel more in control.

Wow. That makes a lot of sense. I am a full-screen, no-overlapping windows junky. But it does have the downside that text or code can be overwhelmingly wide. Standard operating mode for Emacs, or any text dominated session of any kind, is to split the screen vertically into two (or three) columns, side by side like. But that's when I'm using a terminal, or writing code, and it is useful for comparisons (and limiting line width.

But for text, this notion of flowing columns is excellent. it is a reason I like reading articles at the International Herald site. It would be nice if my window manager (ION) or a reasonable editor/viewer of PDFs or such could take this idea and use it. It would probably be complicated and involved...