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NoteTab is a freeware/shareware text editor for Windows. It was developed by Eric Fookes of Fookes Software, Charmey (Gruyère), Switzerland. The program's name refers to the fact that it was apparently one of the earliest text-editors capable of editing several open documents on different tabs (tabbed document interface). The first version of NoteTab, known as Mini NoteTab, was launched in 1995; the current version is 4.95 (introduced May 2003).
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Features
NoteTab's tabbed interface can simultaneously handle an unlimited number of text files up to 2Gb in size. It is highly customizable, with more than 90 commands available on a user-configurable toolbar.
Three of the more unusual features are "outline documents", the "clipbook" and "clipbars".
Outline documents provide hyperlinked headings within a text document, which can be accessed directly by clicking in a side pane. They can be read in any editor. The clipbook displays a library of clips (clickable macros) in a side pane. These could be anything from pieces of boilerplate text or HTML tags to "mini-applications" complicated scripts written in the scripting language. A selection of clip libraries is included with the software and others can be downloaded from the Web. Clipbars are user-defined buttons that appear on a toolbar, for example to execute custom scripts and wizards.
NoteTab integrates with such products as HTML Tidy (http://tidy.sourceforge.net/), TopStyle (http://www.bradsoft.com/topstyle/), CSE HTML Validator (http://www.htmlvalidator.com/) and WordWeb (http://www.wordweb.co.uk/).
Standard, Light and Pro
The software exists in three forms:
- NoteTab Light (formerly Super NoteTab) (freeware)
- NoteTab Standard (shareware, $10)
- NoteTab Pro (shareware, $20)
NoteTab Standard includes, among other features:
- disk search/replace (i.e., change the contents of files without opening them)
- customizable menu shortcuts
- read and write EBCDIC files
- text templates
- text-to-HTML conversion, and tag-stripping
- regular expression handling
NoteTab Light is completely free for all users, with no time-limit, nag screen, appeals for donations, etc. It lacks some of the features of NoteTab Standard. For example, you can read Outline and EBCDIC files but not write them; the disk search facility is present but not disk replace; and the clipbars, customizable menu shortcuts, spell checker and thesaurus are not available. (These "commercial features" can be "turned on" from within the software for a one-off trial period.) However these features are hardly indispensable for most purposes and NoteTab Light works perfectly well as a fully-fledged editor. For this reason the author of NoteTab rejects the description of NoteTab Light as crippleware, and it is true that there are many less full-featured paid-for editors on the market.
NoteTab Pro adds, among others, multi-level undo/redo, syntax highlighting, show/hide nonprinting characters, wrap to column, and support for fixed-pitch OEM fonts, as well as greater speed.
Trademarks
NoteTab™ is a trademark of Fookes Software, Switzerland. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation registered in the U.S. and other countries.
See also
External links
- NoteTab homepage (http://www.notetab.com/)
- Fookes Software (http://www.fookes.com/)
- Clipwriter (http://www.notetab.com/clipwriter/)
- The Note-Tabber's Assistant Page (http://www.notetab.net/)pl:NoteTab