Re footnotes/endnotes. I have been using Pageplus since it started in 1991. Every document I create uses footnotes/endnotes. I have edited a peer-reviewed archaeological / architectural academic Journal of over 400 pages each year for the last 15 + years. The number of words can easily reach 150,000 or more in each Journal. All submissions to the Journal are sent in various levels of Word that have lengthy notes. In the past Pageplus has handled the import of these documents pretty well and formats the endnotes well.
I did expect Affinity to have the same functionality, so I purchased the new program from its release from day one. Its inability to handle footnotes/endnotes means that I will have to continue using Pageplus X9 until such time as they appear in Publisher, so the Journal I am currently working on will have to stay in X9 until early 2020 at least. I am also working on the next 2020 Journal, and once started cannot be transferred into the Affinity Publisher format. Pageplus X9 is good, but has not been touched for about 3 years now. So here's hoping you can get on with asap. Thanks.
Neil Guy