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Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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Thanks for reading, Theo!
Scribus 1.5 has footnotes, but I don't know much about them, largely because the kind of writing I do happens to not require footnotes, so I've never used them. But it's something to look into, maybe.
I do think there are arguments against using a layout program for some kinds of writing, though. Sometimes the right tool for the job is LibreOffice (or Docbook or LaTeX or Markdown). It depends on what your needs are. There are times I still make a false start in one, only to end up in the other.