"Open with Tofu" Script?

[louise]

Hi.
Did you try the freeware Tofu?

Tofu is a novel application to address the common problem that people don’t like reading text on the screen.

Why is that anyway? I believe there are two main reasons: line width and visual instability.

Text is usually very wide on the screen, which makes going from the end of one line to the beginning of the next difficult. That’s why newspapers have narrow columns: It makes them faster to read.

So why not just take a normal window and make it narrower, scrolling down as you need? Well, there are usually a lot of lines in a text, and all look more or less the same, so if they move past your eyes vertically, they are difficult to keep track of. The text doesn’t feel stable, and you get lost easily.

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.

It’s very useful if you read lots of text on the screen!

I’m looking for a script that would open a (rich) text document from DT Pro in Tofu, so i could assign a keyboard shortcut to it. Is this possible?

Greetings, Louise.

[solidsnot]

I don’t know about Applescript but I did this by setting up a trigger in Quicksilver.

If you have Quicksilver here’s how I did it as it took a bit of copying and pasting:

First, make sure you have the Services plug-in installed.

1. Open a document and select some text.
2. Use Cmd-Esc (you may have to enable this trigger in QS’s prefs) to send the selection to QS.
3. Tab into the next pane and type View and the ‘View in Tofu’ service should pop up. Hit Cmd-C.
4. Hit Cmd-, for QS’s prefs.
5. Go to Triggers --> Custom Triggers and press the + at the bottom to add a new trigger.
6. The text you had just selected and View in Tofu action should have dropped down when you created the new trigger. In the first pane of the trigger window type in: Curren (the Current Selection proxy object should pop up) if not, then type Proxy and right arrow into the list and select Current Selection proxy object.
7. Tab into the next pane and hit Cmd-V, the View in Tofu service should have appeared.
8. Assign a handy dandy key combo and limit the scope of the trigger to DT and you’re done.

I know that probably looks complex but it’s really not as painful as it looks.

Edit: Then again, can’t you assign key-combo’s to Services in the Keyboard pref pane?

[eboehnisch]

Why don’t you simply drag a text file from DEVONthink to the Tofu icon in the dock? Or use the contextual menu and the “Open With” command?

Best,

Eric.

[louise]

@eboehnisch

Why don’t you simply drag a text file from DEVONthink to the Tofu icon in the dock? Or use the contextual menu and the “Open With” command?

Best,

Eric.

That’s what i do