TABI 1.1
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1. What is Tabi?
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Tables in HTML files become more and more important
these days but creating a good and colourful table
means a lot of work. These times are over - Tabi
does the work for you. Tabi is a converter for ASCII
tables which use commas, semicolons or tabulators as
seperators. It's not just a pure conversion - you can
also change the background colour, text colour, different
font styles & size and the align of each cell. There
is also the option to define a cell as a link to another
page. No HTML commands are needed for the work with Tabi -
you create & save a table in your favourite spreadsheet
and Tabi generates the HTML code. 
Finally, Tabi allows to give your table a heading. The
border of the table can also be changed.

2. Files
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Tabi may be copied freely with the these files:
  * TABI.PRG      Main program
  * TABI.RSC      Resource file (German/English language) 
  * TABI.TXT      German manual
  * TABI_ENG.TXT  The file you're reading now.

One file is optional:
  * TABI.INF    Always saved when you change the language.

3. That's required:
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An Atari computer - this program may run on emulators
but I refuse to make any corrections that may be required
to run this program on MagicPC/Mac and all the others.
No C64, PC or Amiga programer tries to make programs
emulator compatible, so why should I? 

You need a spreadsheet program that can save the table in
ASCII format (e.g. Atari Works). Tabi can only read
ASCII tables so all styles wil be lost - just the pure
content of the tables remains.
An Internet browser is required to show your tables. Only
Netscape 3.0 supports all of Tabi features (maybe also CAB
2.0). Webspace needs some updates to show the tables 
correctly.

4. Start the program!
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Double-click on TABI.PRG or rename it to TABI.ACC and
put it on your boot drive. The program itself runs
in every resolution - even ST middle. It can also run
with virtual screens because there is no resultion
detection in Tabi.
The best resolution for Tabi is 640*480 and 16 colours.

5. Limitations
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- Tabi won't accept commas as contents in a cell in a file 
  where commas are used as seperators. It doesn't
  matter if you haven't understand this sentence -
  just use tabulators as seperators and there won't be any
  problems with Tabi!
- Tabi can't put cells together - this would be too difficult
  to program. 

6. An advice...
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There are so many options and features of HTML 3 tables
but you shouldn't exaggerate using them. A good layout
is easier to read and requires not so much server space
and download time.

7. Future versions
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None, maybe other languages, but I won't do any tranlations
because my French is not very good...

8. Other Internet tools
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- HomePage Penguin
  The first Web page creator for all Atari computers.
  Make your own homepage without knowing any HTML commands!
  Available in German, English and French language.
- HTML-Help
  After you have created your page you may change some 
  things. HTML-Help can convert the special chars (important
  for pages that are not written in English) and can
  show you the content of your HTML page.
  Languages: German and English.

Newest versions on this page:
http://www.hh.schule.de/hhs/mjaap/programe.htm