Hi Pete,
Pages in the iPad works fine for text for posting.
Most of my posts, including all the Thermodynamics ones are typed and edited in Pages, then simply copied and pasted into the forum reply box. Then I add the attachments.
I believe the only thing to watch is not to do any fancy formatting, the forum system seems to prefer doing those in the forum reply box. And don’t add photos in your text. Emojis are fine added in the reply box, I did find doing sub scripts and super scripts a bit of a pain, probably should have tried what happened if I used Pages, but was usually thinking of other things. I don’t know how it works for the host site links used to post photos.
It’s a good idea, as it means you always have a copy of your posts, especially any long ones. The forum was having a few issues when I started, and it saved my bacon a few times. All seems to be fixed now though, thank you Ade.
I suggest Pages and see how you go. Formatting in Word won’t be very different I expect.
MJM460