Aggggghhhhh! WordStar! I had to wrestle with that on my cpm Kaypro back in the ‘80s. The only good aspect was that learning to format for bold and underline words was good practice when I learned HTML coding.
Aggggghhhhh! WordStar!
WordStar was awesome. Among the great things was that you could largely convert a WordStar document to ASCII by simply PIPping it [Z].