My dad aches after a good and powerful typesetting tool (for less technical users than *TeX is aimed at), in the vein of the Ventura Publisher of old. Nowadays

My dad aches after a good and powerful typesetting tool (for less technical users than *TeX is aimed at), in the vein of the Ventura Publisher of old. Nowadays it seems all about Adobe Indesign but the workflows seem inferior for many book-type workloads. Scribus needs a lot of help.