The single most powerful tool available for a long-form writer (in any (human) language.) Equally useful for fact, fiction, academia, documentation, anything. Technologically simple, was done well on MS-DOS in a few hundred kB of code and data.
Maps very well onto HTML, XML, etc. As such, maps onto AsciiDoc etc.
But forgotten. Almost no modern versions and what exist are almost unbelievably primitive, far far below the capabilities of the mid-1980s -- for example, Emacs OrgMode or LogSeq. Almost too braindead to use.
I keep copies of 20-30Y old MS Word binaries around on my 64-bit Linux boxes, just for this.
The single most powerful tool available for a long-form writer (in any (human) language.) Equally useful for fact, fiction, academia, documentation, anything. Technologically simple, was done well on MS-DOS in a few hundred kB of code and data.
Maps very well onto HTML, XML, etc. As such, maps onto AsciiDoc etc.
But forgotten. Almost no modern versions and what exist are almost unbelievably primitive, far far below the capabilities of the mid-1980s -- for example, Emacs OrgMode or LogSeq. Almost too braindead to use.
I keep copies of 20-30Y old MS Word binaries around on my 64-bit Linux boxes, just for this.