Lotus Manuscript
Lotus Manuscript is a discontinued MS-DOS-based word processor from Lotus Development first released in 1986. The software was distributed on eight 5¼" diskettes and retailed for US$495.Features
Manuscript was one of the first MS-DOS word processors to make it easier to edit columns formatted as tables. Up to nine columns are supported as of version 2.0.
The word processor had two modes: structured which is used in technical writing, and unstructured.
Manuscript 2.0 was released in 1988 and added a Microlytics-based thesaurus, conditional mail merges, multi-line headers and footers. The Lotus 1-2-3 like backslash commands were replaced with 40 markers. in addition to distribution on 5¼" diskettes, 3½" diskettes were made available.
Manuscript 2.1 was released in 1989 with further improvements to the software.
