I'd think about acquiring a machine running Panther and using filesharing (or Panther Server), along with some form of localtalk to ethertalk bridge (unless you have Ethernet cards in the SE & SE/30). Unless I am mistaken (maybe it's Jaguar), both old and new machines should be able to connect to that share, and that way you can exchange files galore — as well as backup, etc..
What you really want on your SE/30, however, if working primarily with prose is Nisus Writer Pro version 5.1.3. NWP is so much better than the alternatives. Not only is it fast, and stable, but it is extremely powerful and intuitive. It is trivial, for instance, to convert a NWP file to a plain text LaTeX or Pandoc Markdown file in Nisus Writer: NWP can search for your italics or footnotes and convert them to, say, markdown *italics* or LaTeX \footnote{foo} (there is a Macro "out there" for the latter). Then you do what you need with the plain text results via Text Wrangler and pandoc, including conversion to docx. Or just splurge and buy the new Nisus Writer Pro for OSX, which at the moment is about $35 for academics, and which will open NWP files from the SE/30 just fine.
On the SE, I'd just use Nisus Writer Compact, which runs well on a 68000. Same file format, less power. Oh, and I'd use Verdana (10 point) as a screen font, or perhaps a monospaced font like Monaco. Your eyes will thank you.
As long as what you are dealing with is text, without much by way of tables or graphics, NWP is superb, and the interface (which seems so strange on a later machine with a large screen) is perfect for a Compact Mac. It is also the closest thing to a pure Text Editor that can be found in any word processor.
I have been thinking about working this way a lot lately myself, in advance of a new project — the one thing that I need to set in place to complete the package still is a half-decent reference manager system. I haven't cracked that nut yet, however.
What you really want on your SE/30, however, if working primarily with prose is Nisus Writer Pro version 5.1.3. NWP is so much better than the alternatives. Not only is it fast, and stable, but it is extremely powerful and intuitive. It is trivial, for instance, to convert a NWP file to a plain text LaTeX or Pandoc Markdown file in Nisus Writer: NWP can search for your italics or footnotes and convert them to, say, markdown *italics* or LaTeX \footnote{foo} (there is a Macro "out there" for the latter). Then you do what you need with the plain text results via Text Wrangler and pandoc, including conversion to docx. Or just splurge and buy the new Nisus Writer Pro for OSX, which at the moment is about $35 for academics, and which will open NWP files from the SE/30 just fine.
On the SE, I'd just use Nisus Writer Compact, which runs well on a 68000. Same file format, less power. Oh, and I'd use Verdana (10 point) as a screen font, or perhaps a monospaced font like Monaco. Your eyes will thank you.
As long as what you are dealing with is text, without much by way of tables or graphics, NWP is superb, and the interface (which seems so strange on a later machine with a large screen) is perfect for a Compact Mac. It is also the closest thing to a pure Text Editor that can be found in any word processor.
I have been thinking about working this way a lot lately myself, in advance of a new project — the one thing that I need to set in place to complete the package still is a half-decent reference manager system. I haven't cracked that nut yet, however.