by Andrey Ovcharov on WordPress.org

Example of splitted text
You need to display your articles in magazine or newspaper style. Use this plugin. You don’t have
to change your theme files or add styles – just use “table” splitter.
The plugin requires DOM API (http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.dom.php) and Tidy (http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.tidy.php)
Wrap block of text with [auto_columns]...[/auto_columns] shortcode. It will produce markup like
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
Nam tincidunt gravida dui, at bibendum nisl lacinia nec.
In your theme use do_shortcode function:
You will have to define width for .auto-columns-column class in your theme, of course.