Is it actually true that QXP and InDesign will BOTH do what I need? I’ve researched a bit on the internet and fiddled around with trial versions, and (aside from the regrettable fact that it’ll be a steep learning curve in either program), it seems that Quark will not handle footnotes. Importing the latest project, it just dumped all the footnotes at the very end of the document, which, of course, is not what was intended.
How steep is the learning curve for this program? The main problem with all of this, I suppose, is that I’ll not be around to do the layouting forever, and while I may see the next book through to print, someone else will take over afterwards. In your opinion (all of you), assuming you’d have to retrain someone every year, is it worth the hassle to switch from crude Word layouting to something more professional?