Apple Newton Press (Macintosh) - Manual (Page 44)

Creating tables
You can create tables in a book by first setting up your tab stops and then
entering the table information.
You can also add documents that have tables. If you’re adding a document
with tables, the tables must be formatted as text separated by tab characters.
After adding such a document, you can select the table and arrange the tab
stops to reformat the table to fit the screen.
When the tables are wide with many columns of text, it’s often a good idea to
reformat tables in the original application to fit within the Newton PDA
screen before you add them to a book.
Some applications create tables as matrices of cells that hold the table
information. Tables formatted as cells will not be imported correctly into a
Newton Press document. To prepare such a document for importing, use the
original application to recreate or convert the table into text separated by tabs.
(Some applications, such as word processors, provide commands for making
such conversions easy.) You can then add the document to a Newton Press
book and reformat the table.
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Tab markers set to create
columns of text.