I have taken care over the years to accumulate various documents I've found to be "good", and I have placed those here. For future reference, the dots at the left of each entry in the file section corresponds to the color that you will see when you hover over the cards below:
This is IBM's document processor program that runs on mainframes. The syntax is pretty similar to UNIX troff (look at the next card for more of that), and the two share a common origin (RUNOFF on CTSS).
Your UNIX machines come with a full document processor that can make most of anything you'd need. Combine troff with eqn, tbl, pic, and more to produce some beautiful papers.
I have often found that Microsoft Word is one of those software products that decreased in quality over the years. As such, I am a heavy user of Office Word 4.2, 97, 2000, and 2003.
Of all of the old-days PC/UNIX word processors, I find WordPerfect to be the best one I've used. I make heavy use of WPWin 6.0 and 7.0 (found in Corel Office 7), as well as the UNIX graphical and command-line versions; lest I forget WordPerfect for OpenVMS -- I use that heavily too.
Mostly forgotten now, Word Pro was a cheap word processor (originally called Ami Pro) seen in the Lotus SmartSuite package IBM sold. It runs great on Windows and OS/2, and is a great no-frills editor passingly similar to LibreOffice Writer.
Intended to be a competitor to IBM SCRIPT, DOCUMENT was a program often seen alongside ALL-IN-1 on VMS systems. It produced the VMS and Digital UNIX print manuals, and has a very distinct style that's hard to miss reading old stuff.
A program I wrote, this program accepts a markup language, and, by way of M4, converts it into HTML or PostScript output. It's got a distinct (bad) look to it, but it gets the job done!!
