If you like markup languages (which I do), there is a wonderful word processor
for dos available as groff:

http://oak.oakland.edu/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/gro110b.zip 

This is the GNU version of the unix desktop publisher, troff. You
mark up a plain text file with commands that start with a dot, such
as .ce for center the next line or .ip for make the next lines an 
indented paragraph. You run groff.exe (a 32 bit program) on
the whole file, as a batch job. Therefore, groff can handle large
files of  virtually any size that can be stored on your disk.
This is not a WYSIWYG system, but one can pretty esily create an
instant text previewer of a block of text, or of the whole document.

Groff itself comes with a print driver for plain equal spaced fonts,
like courier, or for postscript printers. If you have a HP printer that
uses the hp print language, you need to add Aladden Ghostscript and/or
Ghostview to this package.  These programs will translate groff output
into the HP print language, and will provide a graphics previewer for
your documents.

Groff, Ghostscript, and Ghostview are all freeware. I had the whole system
working like a charm for a while on my HP inkjset, but have not used it
in a while. Groff/ghostscript handles pictures and images along with text.

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