Some years(!) have passed since Affinity Publisher was released, and from day one of the release dissatisfaction with the lack of footnotes and cross-referencing has been clearly expressed. These two functions are basic to minimal requirements for desktop publishing. Yet nothing from Affinity. I do not understand this situation, since with even a modestly dedicated team of programmers, the entire Affinity Publisher product could have been redesigned and rewritten in the time since its first release. My conclusion is that serious work on Affinity Publisher stopped long ago, and that it is sadly best to move to another publisher. In my case I have moved to Latex/Lyx
