Comment by at_a_remove

Authors typically do not do page layout and design, that's handled at another level.

However, I was able to manage quite a lot of both using Appleworks on the ][e in the 1980s. Formatting prose (rather than layout) was definitely in the mix: bold, italics, underline, font sizes. I would say that Appleworks made HTML rather easy for me to learn when it first came out, because you had to open and close each formatting option, rather like tags.