TEX4TAB
Version 0.1
08.03.2007 (08.mar.2007)

Transforms a text file with very simple tagging into a LaTeX table.
Input file must separate cells with tabs

Contents of this package:
source      Snobol source files, bash scripts and bat files for Windows, test files
bin/windows Executable files for Windows, with test files in Dos-Windows format
doc         Documentation files in LaTeX and PDF formats.
	    
To install and use this package, please read the documentation file.

Simple formatting aid:
*cell*	produces \texmf{cell}
!cell!	produces \emph{cell}
^cell^	produces \textsc{cell}

Multicolumns support
Starting a cell with a tag as "<M2>" --> produces multicolumns{2}

Empty cells
Use <E> and separate with a tab as with normal cells. The LaTex output will be
an empty cell. Do not use blanks or double tabs: the results will be a wrong
LaTeX code.

EXAMPLE
snobol4 -b tab4tex.sno r=7 a=c b=y h=y c=y <tab.txt >tab.tex
or, if compiled (Dos-Windows):
tab4tex r=7 a=c b=y h=y c=y <tab.txt >tab.tex
a	align (center,left,right)
b	vertical bar (y/n)
c	complete LaTeX document (y/n)
h	hline (y/n)
r	rows

EXAMPLE OF INPUT FILE
See files test1.txt and test2.txt
*	test1 is very simple. The output file is obtained running
	snobol4 -b tab44tex.sno r=5 a=c b=y h=y c=y <test1.txt>test1.tex
*	test2 is taken from an example found at:
	http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwilkins/LaTeXPrimer/Tables.html
	--> To read this file with a text editor set your tabs at 12 <--
	Please notice that some additional features, as double separation lines
	between cols, can be easily added in the final LaTeX file.
	The output file is obtained running
	snobol4 -b tab44tex.sno r=5 a=l b=y h=y c=y <test2.txt>test2.tex
	Notice a=l in this example (alignment = left)


EXAMPLE OF OUTPUT FILE
See files test1.tex and test2.tex

HOW TO GET SNOBOL
This program is written in Snobol4, a language very poweful for pattern matching
and text processing.

Windows-Dos:
For Windows-Dos a compiled version is provided so you do not need the interpreter.
The program needs at least a 386 and Windows 95 or more.
If you are interested, or if you run the program with an older system,
you can get a freeware version of the Snobol4 interpreter from Catspaw, inc.,
at <http://www.snobol4.com>
The EXE file provided here is compiled with Spitbol and should run faster than
the interpreted file with Snobol4. Spitbol is a professional version of Snobol4
and is sold by Catspaw (it is not freeware).

Linux and Unix(es)
A freeware version of Snobol4 (due to Phil Budne) can be downloaded from
<http://www.snobol4.org>
Compilation is easy. For any problem, Phil is extremely helpful.
The interpreter is necessary to run the program under Unix(es).

Mac
Not tested. There is a Mac version of Snobol (see Catspaw) but with OSX Phil's
Snobol4 may be compiled, I believe.

TODO
* Escape sequences for '<E>' and for chars used to format text
* Better support for multicolumns
* Use of tabularx and longtable
* Some more formatting aids.

BUGS
None known.

LICENCE
Copyright (C) 2007 Guido Milanese guido.milanese@unicatt.it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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If the author of this software was too lazy to include the full GPL text along
with the code, you can find it at: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html