It really depends on your requirements, but for many years we have used a 
Docbook based approach for our technical documentation, which allows us to 
easily generate  HTML, PDF, and man page versions of our documentation.   It's 
a bit of work getting the XSL styles tweaked to your liking, but after that it 
is quite nice.   

Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
See:   https://coztoolkit.com/docs/coz/coz_index.html

On Tue, Aug 15, 2023, at 4:02 PM, Bob Bridges wrote:
> I've ranted on this before so I'll make it short:  I finally, maybe a year 
> ago, got tired of trying to write serious documentation in Word.  I asked you 
> folks and those at another listserv about markup languages, and then took a 
> week off to learn to use LaTeX.  I'm ~much~ happier with that.
> 
> ---
> Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313
> 
> /* In order to write for "The A-Team", you'd have to be a much better writer 
> than most of those who write the evening news at networks and local stations 
> — forget about shows like "Hill Street Blues" or "The Muppet Show", where 
> writing REALLY counts.  -Linda Ellerbee in _And So It Goes_ */
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of 
> Steve Thompson
> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2023 13:47
> 
> Libre Office: It does about 90% of what M/S Office products do (Word, & XL 
> are what I use). Word is better at formatting documents than is Libre office 
> in my experience. And XL has more features than Libre.
> 
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