Bug 160939 - table of authorities missing in writer
Summary: table of authorities missing in writer
Status: UNCONFIRMED
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Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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24.2.0.3 release
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Reported: 2024-05-05 06:05 UTC by johnks
Modified: 2024-05-10 14:31 UTC (History)
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Description johnks 2024-05-05 06:05:13 UTC
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
Comment 1 Eyal Rozenberg 2024-05-10 14:31:03 UTC
(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?