I did all my college papers with a CP/M roff program that I ported to MSDOS Turbo C from a port that someone else did to some other MSDOS compiler. That plus a text editor (Emacs subset) was all I needed. It is still around, 23KB of C code:

https://cis.temple.edu/~giorgio/old/cis307f07/software/minix...

I guess WordGrinder is a TUI thing which maybe has its attractions.