[3] First released in 1986, Lotus Manuscript was one of the first MS-DOS word processors and being sophisticated geared toward scientific technical writing.
It also includes footnoting, document tracking, import from Lotus 1-2-3, and mailmerge.
Version 2 adds macro and downloadable font support.
The word processor had two modes: structured (outline) 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.