Description: table of authorities is missing in writer. there is one bibliography whereby user can enter citations but there is no classification of citations in categories. In legal briefs, we require for example, two types of citations, cases and statutes and many others for example. Libreoffice does not allow bibliographies to be classified and as a result, they appear clubbed together. Steps to Reproduce: 1. http://www.fortneylawgroup.com/articles/Easily-Create-a-Table-of-Authorities-for-a-legal-brief-with-Microsoft-Word.html 2. try to follow this guide to type a legal brief document with citations for cases and statutes 3. try to generate table of authorities at the end which are grouped by categories Actual Results: there is only a single category of bibliography which user can generate but all citations (there is no mechanism like citation in word and its corresponding "mark" as in the guide) are clubbed together Expected Results: http://www.fortneylawgroup.com/articles/Easily-Create-a-Table-of-Authorities-for-a-legal-brief-with-Microsoft-Word.html the document as generated in the guide above in word should be generated in writer as well Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Version: 24.2.0.3 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: da48488a73ddd66ea24cf16bbc4f7b9c08e9bea1 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.5; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-IN (en_IN); UI: en-US Calc: threaded
(In reply to johnks from comment #0) John, please explain this in more detail for those of us who are not familiar with some of the terminology - as it seems you are asking for multiple (related) features at once. What is an "authority"? Also, why do you "mark" citation eons written manually rather than add a citation using a preexisting bibliographic source?
This might be relevant: https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/writer-how-to-make-multiple-tables-of-authorities-without-creating-duplicate-entries/9777 This is the process for marking citations and creating a table of authorities in MSO: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-a-table-of-authorities-ddd126ae-52bc-4299-9558-06dd0e4fe8c0
(In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #2) > This is the process for marking citations and creating a table of > authorities in MSO: > https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-a-table-of-authorities- > ddd126ae-52bc-4299-9558-06dd0e4fe8c0 So first step would be to provide option for table of authorities entries. cc: Design-Team
I would rather think about a table of bookmarks (ToB) and have some kind of flexible tag on bookmarks similar to captions. The ordinary bibliographical entry could be tagged with "Citation" and you change it to any other pre- or user-defined category. The ToB would offer what category to show in that list. First of all a question whether this can be done with the file format, and secondly if this is feasible regarding implementation. Last but not least something that requires a lot of knowledge and should be done by experts (https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/professional-support/).