Comment by technofiend

What? Page layout and design is not the exclusive domain of software written in the last few years. Wordstar, Word Perfect, Electric Pencil, Display Write and many others programs contemporary to that era gave people enough control to write books, term and research papers, legal documents of every stripe and anything else you care to name. WYSIWYG made it far easier for the general public to perform typesetting tasks but that's not what we're talking about here.