NoteTab is a program featuring multi-file, full screen text and HTML editing for Windows. Its name is derived from its ability as one of the earliest text editors to be able to edit and manage several open files or documents on a tabbed document interface [that is, different tabs on a single interface]. NoteTab has “Clipâ€Â, its own macro language. Clips [clickable macros] can be stored in a library called clipbook. The software has three forms: Light, Standard and Pro. NoteTab Light is a free software. Its latest version is 5.4 incorporated with regular expressions with general syntax using the same rules as Perl. Its Text Editing features are: pasteboard, reuse and create text snippets, in-text calculations, variable-width fonts. Its Web Development features are: HTML5 & CSS3 support, HTML & CSS code libraries, Twitter Bootstrap code library, auto complete HTML code, Web page templates, group project files together, HTML Tidy to improve your code, HTML to Text conversion, Text to HTML conversion. Features for advanced users include scriptable property [custom features to extend NoteTab], Regular Expressions [PCRE-based], portability [can run from USB thumb drives].
NoteTab Standard is the medium package of NoteTab Software’s three products offering much more features than NoteTab Light [free software] but fewer features than NoteTab Pro. Text Editing features of NoteTab Standard that are not available in NoteTab Light are wildcard search [search with * and ? characters], search and replace, real-time word count using Microsoft Word or NoteTab, outline [multi-section] documents, advanced word statistics, English Thesaurus, spell checker [10 languages] and print preview. Documents created by NoteTab have the format OTL [Notetab Outline File]. These files contain text blocks organized by headings and can be saved as template to make similar files. Web development feature added to Standard is the advanced SEO word statistics that is not featured in NoteTab Light. Added features for advanced users that are not in Light are custom toolbars for scripts, customizable keyboard shortcuts and EBCDIC format for saved files. NoteTab Standard is cheaper than Pro. NoteTab Standard has two advantages over Pro: One is its ability to use variable-width fonts. The other is its better support for right-to-left scripts and double-byte sets of characters.
NoteTab Pro is the complete package among the three products employing NoteTab software, an HTML and text editing program by Fookes Software Ltd. The software makes you capable of managing [such as edit] several open documents and files on different tabs on your user interface. It has many unique features such as Clip [NoteTab’s own macro language], Clipbook [library for clips or clickable macros], outline documents [documents with hyperlinked headings on a text document] and pasteboard. The other two are NoteTab Light [freeware] and NoteTab Standard [more features than Light but less features and cheaper price than Pro]. Text Editing features added to NoteTab Pro are multi-level undo/redo and URL highlighting for plain text files. Web Development feature added is syntax highlighting for CSS & HTML. Features for advanced users include ability to show or hide non-printing characters, text bookmarks, Wordstar keyboard shortcuts, line number toggle and wrap text to column. NoteTab Pro has greater speed than Light and Standard. One feature that is available in Light and Standard but not in Pro is the use of variable-width fonts.