What application do you use to write technical procedures?

Without knowing (a) how long the deliverables are, (b) how many people will read them, (c) in what form they will be read and (d) the degree to which they will be repurposed, it's sort of hard to give you a single recommendation.

Many fairly large organizations use:

1. Adobe Framemaker (for long stuff) 2. Oracle Universal Productivity Kit (very popular if the company is also building documentation or training). 3. One of the content management suites using DITA (usually HP or IBM).

The two most common-used, however, are Word and (gag) Excel.

Emacs org mode -> export to HTML.

(if you can get away with it)

Have you tried LaTeX? Or GNU Texinfo, perhaps?