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In my first job I had to do my weekly report on a mechanical typewriter. It looked 50 years old.
Some years later I was using Wordstar on CP/M by the time the PC launched. It was really just a glass typewriter with editing. It and early wordperfect only had direct formatting.
I was introduced to styles with decent Desktop Publishing (DTP) in the early 1990s where the text was created as plain text and imported. I've not used DTP for over 15 years.
Most DTP is now obsolete due to style features of MS Word and LO Writer and decent PDF export. Adobe's InDesign is based on a totally ancient system designed by Aldus, and never released before Adobe bought Aldus, and fudged for ebooks. Still popular with corporate and may be of value for text books that are fixed layout as electronic versions. IMO a total waste of money for anything else.
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