Thanks very much Drs Vanek and Bolso It seems that Scribus does not handle either Japanese or footnotes.
By the way, I definately have some images in my textbook http://www.nihonbunka.com/temp/english_as_baseball.rtf So a text layout editor would not seem to be the thing to go for. Perhaps LaTex is more than that but looking at the Japanese homepage it seems to be rather lacking in a GUI. It looks like I may have to go for the Indesign Academic Pack... ouch! Tim
