NoteTab has many features that make it easy to create or convert documents to Web pages. Note, however, that only NoteTab Pro offers HTML-syntax highlighting. Support tools include the Editor Clipbook, the Quick List, and the Modify menu which offers powerful commands to convert characters, selected text, or entire documents to HTML.
You can produce Web pages from Outline documents, complete with a table of contents, headers for each topic, and links between them. To see for yourself, open the Readme.OTL document and use the menu command "Modify | Document to HTML | With Paragraph Tags". Once the new HTML document is created, hit the F8 shortcut key to view it in your browser. Edit the settings on the "Options | Outline" tab to configure the format of the Web page. Creating this type of HTML document has never been easier. Webmasters maintaining FAQ lists will find this feature particularly useful.
The Editor Clipbook is a powerful tool for adding HTML tags to your text. Most HTML editors let you add tags through toolbars loaded with buttons or cascading menus. This approach is awkward to say the least. With the Clipbook, tags are clearly identified by meaningful names, the list is always in view once you open it, and it can contain a virtually unlimited number of items (tags or frequently used text). You can easily customize the Clipbook HTML libraries to suit your needs. A little icon next to each item indicates whether it contains a tag that can wrap around selected text (a "+" symbol) or not (a circle). Some Clips even accept user input before they are pasted in the document (see the topic Clipbook Wizards for more information). You can insert Clips by double-clicking on them, by dragging them into the document, by typing the first matching characters and hitting the F2 function key, or by invoking the In-Context Clipbook using the ESC key. Use Ctrl+Spacebar as a shortcut to insert the highlighted Clip.
Adding links to other Web pages or images stored on your computer is really easy when you use the Quick List tool. When it is configured to display disk files or Favorites, file names can be dragged from the list into the document. If the extension of the document is listed in the "HTML File Extensions" list box (Options dialog box), the appropriate link tag is inserted at the point where you drop the file. Tags for image files (GIF, PNG, JPG, and BMP) will even have the correct size attributes completed. You can also insert links to other Web documents or images by using the "Document | Insert HTML Link/Image" menu command (Shift+Ctrl+F5). Color codes can be inserted by using the "Document | Insert HTML Color" menu command (Ctrl+F5).
Changing a URL or any other type of text (even multiple lines) across many Web pages is also easy with NoteTab. Two methods are available: either you open all the files that are likely to contain the searched text and then use the "Search | Replace" command (Ctrl+R) to scan through them, or use the "Search | Search Disk" command (Ctrl+D) to scan your disk files.
Use Document Templates to create new documents that already contain the framework of your Web page layout. This feature will save you a lot of typing when you add Web pages to your project. A sample HTML template is provided with NoteTab.
You can view your HTML document in your main Web browser by using the F8 function key. Hold the Ctrl key down if you want to open the document in a new Web browser window (this feature may not work with all browsers). There is no need to save your changes when you use this feature. If NoteTab detects that your document has been modified, it stores the changes in a temporary file and sends it to the browser. Temporary files are automatically deleted when you exit NoteTab.
You can organize your HTML documents in multiple categories by using the flexible Favorites dialog box (Shift+F2). The Favorites feature can exploit an unlimited number of categories. Items in the list can represent file names (including wildcards), directories, and the names of other categories.
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://www.notetab.com/download.htm
(* 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.)