NoteTab version 4.0 is the most important upgrade since the introduction of the innovative Editor Clipbook tool in January 1997. You will find many useful new features and lots of improvements. This version is more user friendly, faster, and offers features that will please both power users and more casual users. Several new tools and commands are available for the first time in a text editor.
The version number of Super NoteTab has jumped from 2.63e to 4.0 instead of 3.0. This was done to align the version number with that of NoteTab Pro.
Changes in version 4.01
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* 4.011: Text statistics now also show frequency percentage and can be sorted in frequency of occurences (from word list's shortcut menu).
* 4.011: Fixed a small bug with the Font dialog box; NoteTab could not detect a change if only the font script was modified (important for non-Western scripts).
* New option "Warn Partial Loading" on Files tab in Options dialog box warns if a file has only been partially loaded due to the presence of null characters.
* NoteTab will now prompt you if a large selection (1024 or more characters) is going to be deleted as a result of typing text. This feature protects your text from accidental deletions.
* Image files (GIF, JPG, GIF) dragged from the File List tool (shortcut: F6) into an HTML document will now create a tag that includes the size attributes.
* The Find/Replace feature will now prompt you to resume a search from the beginning of a document if no match is found. If the scope is limited to the current document, selected text is more than 30 characters and at least twice as large as the search criteria, then Find/Replace will only search within the selected text.
* Used another method to control positioning of Windows standard dialog boxes (Font, File Open/Save, Message Box, etc.). Hopefully, dialogs will not be displayed behind the application window under any circumstances.
* NTP: New command for converting tabs to spaces (Modify | Spaces | Tabs to Spaces).
* NTP: When the Auto Indent option is set, pressing Backspace at the beginning of an indented word now aligns it with the indent on the previous line.
* Added optional toolbar button "Strip Tags". This command removes HTML tags but preserves links in the resulting document.
* Spaces are now allowed in mathematical expressions that are evaluated by Notetab.
* Changed the choice of icons available for NoteTab and associated files.
* " ( ) { } [ ] < > characters are now also counted and displayed in the Text Statistics window. Useful to check for correct matches.
* Clip commands are displayed in the status bar as they get executed.
* Additional or improved Clipbook commands:
^!SAVE:AS [FileName]
if you specify an optional file name, the Save As dialog box is not displayed and the specified file name is used.
^!PROMPT:message
the Prompt command now accepts an optional message
^!CONTINUE:message
shows an OK/Cancel dialog box with optional message; if the user presses the Cancel button, Clip execution is stopped
^!JUMP:LINE_START
places cursor at the beginning of the current line
^!JUMP:LINE_END
places cursor at the end of the current line
^!JUMP:SELECT_START
places cursor at the beginning of the selection and unselects the text
^!JUMP:SELECT_END
places cursor at the end of the selection and unselects the text
new behaviour: you must now use the option "A" to replace all occurences within the defined scope; otherwise only the next occurence is replaced. If the options G and W are not used, selected text is more than 30 characters and at least twice as large as the search criteria, the Replace function will only operate within the selected text. Use the option "S" if you don't want NoteTab to display search/replace messages.
^!FIND:SearchText Options [TIBGWS]
new behaviour: if the options G and W are not used, selected text is more than 30 characters and at least twice as large as the search criteria, the search function will only operate within the selected text. Use the option "S" if you don't want NoteTab to display search messages.
^!RUN:CommandLine
use this command to launch DOS applications (if the standard "^!CommandLine" does not work)
^!REFRESH:
use after file management actions to update the list of available Clipbook libraries and the content of the File List. It also checks if any of the open documents were changed on disk.
* Other minor interface improvements and several small glitches fixed
The NoteTab Mailing List
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I have decided to start-up a mailing list (a mail forum) on a trial basis. It will continue as long as it is successful. This means, if it is something that a fair number of you want and are reasonably active on it then it will continue. You will find more information about this list on the following web page:
http://www.notetab.ch/maillist.htm (server in Switzerland)
or
http://www.notetab.com/maillist.htm (mirror server in the USA)
To Subscribe to the NoteTab mailing list, send a post to:
-> More than 80 commands available for the toolbar
-> Customizable editor shortcut menu
-> Search/replace text criteria can be any size (before the limit was 255 characters)
-> NoteTab Pro now accepts multiple line search/replace criteria (^P token)
-> File List replaces the Document Selector and is docked in the main window. Choice to view list of open documents, Favorites, or disk files (press F6 to display it)
-> Supports document outlines (open the file Readme.OTL for an example of the possibilities)
-> Supports document templates (open the file Sample.TPL for an example of the possibilities)
-> Search/Replace through files on disk (press Ctrl+D)
-> Hyperlinks between and within documents
-> Display two documents side by side (Shift+Ctrl+W)
-> Clipbook button bar for easy access to libraries
-> You can now edit individual Clipbook items in a normal document window (menu Tools|Clipbook|Clipbook Item Editor). Each time you select an item from the Clipbook window, it is displayed in the document.
-> You can display Wizard-like dialogs with the Clipbook for user input (see HTML examples; e.g. HTML Begin).
-> You can create file management scripts with the new Clipbook syntax and execute program commands
-> The program can calculate! Look at the new Convert Clipbook library for examples.
-> The program can also calculate mathematical formula in a document. For example, if you enter the following formula in a document:
Sin(3)*5=
and then press Ctrl+E (or from menu Tools|Calculate Expression), the result will be added after the equal sign. If there is no equal sign, or if the document is Read-Only then it copies the result to the Clipboard and displays it in a small window.
Supported mathematical operators and functions are listed in the Help file.
-> NoteTab makes the popular "The HTML Reference Library" (by Stephen Le Hunte) available from the Help menu. If you have HTMLib version 3.0 or older, you can install the package in the same directory as NoteTab. Another method that works with all versions is to create a shortcut* to the HTMLib.exe file in the NoteTab directory. The highly recommended "HTML Reference Library" is available from:
http://hot.virtual-pc.com/htmlib/
(* to create the shortcut: 1. open Explorer and select the HTMLib file; 2. press Ctrl+C to copy it to the Clipboard; 3. select the NoteTab directory and choose the command "paste Shortcut" from the Edit menu. The menu command will be displayed in NoteTab after you restart it.)
