Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> I've seen people use PageMaker or FrameMaker. Both are not
> that cheap. 

And both were killed off by Adobe, so not a good idea for a new 
purchase.  (I don't know whether they're admitting it these days.) 
Replaced by InDesign, which I really liked.

> Power users of MS Word and OpenOffice Writer
> can do magics as well.

Yes - I think I've done all the things the OP was describing in 
OpenOffice Writer:

Forrest Christian wrote:
> This is really a rather simple layout - 
> alternating headers/footers top and bottom, images, text flow around 
> images, etc.    I'll need to be able to do chapter headings as well.

It's got all those features, Forrest - What were you having trouble with?
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