This tool was built from scratch and a lot of effort has been put in to it.
It produces the files in the startpos directory and it is made to depict the 1096AD "Early".
To build the period file you will have to go page by page. The tool will do a number of tests so to certify that what you do is OK. One think for the units and the buildings it checks the culture not the owner! So you can give Kataphraki to other Orthodox factions. In the "Units in regions" page you will get a worming if the units placed exceed the ability of the region to support them. This calculation is not absolutely correct but if you get a warning then most probably the region will have a problem.
The "Lands" page has the game map and the regions. It is not active and it is placed there for reference. If someone knows how to make it active ... please do it will greatly help.
After you have all as you like it save the "EARLY" page as a tab delimited tXT file. You will have to open it with wordpade and replace all """ with " and "// with //.
The hole thing is at Ver.0.99 you can say so some modification will go in to it but it will mostly be a cosmetic one.
Important if you would like to increase/decrease the number of lines in a page YOU HAVE TO GO BACK AND MODIFY THE FIRST PAGE TO REFLECT THEM!!!! The tool is not automated but it makes a number of checks and calculations.
You are free to use and modify the file freely and at your own risk.