Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Full Text Issue Listing |
Summary: | Reference/bibliography management is sorely lacking | ||
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Product: | Writer | Reporter: | praedor <praedor> |
Component: | code | Assignee: | AOO issues mailing list <issues> |
Status: | CONFIRMED --- | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | Trivial | ||
Priority: | P3 | CC: | issues |
Version: | OOo 1.0.2 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
Issue Type: | FEATURE | Latest Confirmation in: | --- |
Developer Difficulty: | --- |
Description
praedor
2002-12-17 13:50:14 UTC
Reassigned to ES Please evaluate Set to "NEW" Do we have a vote for OpenOffice issues ?? I have been searching the whole documentation for the last two hours because I simply couldn't *believe* that this wouldn't exist ! I would have set a bet on OpenOffice to have one ! Shame ! I tried so many ways around; at least you cracks at OpenOffice could possibly identify a work-around !? I couldn't even change the format of those End-numbers. They just come superscript, you select what you like. Give us at least some incremental, auto-numbering like [1], please ! Please be polite. The developers are doing a great deal and bibliography, even if crucial for a large class of users, still is not nearly as important for the new user as some other issues. However, it has been listed as "New" and not "Unconfirmed." Having said that, I would surely like it if it could be assigned to someone. I have to create bibliographies by hand and add them. The bibiliography feature of OOo is close to useless for many publisher's style sheets. There DOES need to be some kind of bibliography management program. My excuses if I wasn't. Tend trying to be perfectionist, and would like everyone else to be same. Thanks for your agreement. I was just writing a paper, with 26 References only. Publisher requires specific format and I had to insert another reference, just after [1]. I said to myself that I won't possibly search and increment [2] to [3], [3] to [4], etc, until [26] is incremented into [27]. This should be done automatically, like in Numbering and Bullets, when you insert a new number after 1. (Maybe this makes it a bit clearer, what is required) Plus, the format must be user defined, just as in Numbering and Bullets. And a link must exist between that number and that same number on the References page. Many publishers expect citations like [Miller, 1998] or similar. Also then, this "Miller, 1998" needs to show up as a link on the References page. Otherwise, sorry, hopeless for scientific publications. So far I only found the superscript-numbers (no way to change the format) referring to either foot- or endnote. I was already finding myself experimenting with another section, with a *huge* footnote area containing all references as endnotes, but when I didn't find a way to change the format of those simple, superscript numbers, I gave up. So far I impressed (pun !) my colleagues and students pretty much with Open Office, but now I'm glad I haven't been too successful in my efforts. Please, please, add this feature, vote for it (I did already !), so that we can recommend Open Office in academia. Don't underestimate the multiplication factor ! - Thanks ! I agree that there must be a plug-in for Writer to work with Endnote and/or Reference Manager. Unfortunately, the above-mentioned software are not open source, nor they have linux versions; therefore the task is a little bit more complicated than building the plug-in. I realize the difficulty/impracticality to incorporate any reference management software/utility to the Open Office suite. However, any reference management utility embedded in Writer that is shorter than one with internet database (such as PubMed, Genome, etc.) search tools would not attract scientific community to the Open Office suite. I would personally rather use Crossover Office instead, to produce scientific papers. Thanks, hakova Hi Mathias, I have changed the current owner to your owner. Please take the ownership of these enhancements. While it would be very nice to have this functionality built-in, for now I have found Bibus. Bibus, though somewhat of a pain to setup, works much like EndNote with MS Word. It will use citation styles and generate the reference list/bibliography at the end of the document as with EndNote. Bibus CAN be somewhat temperamental to get running but once running works rather well. I strongly recommend Zotero for this: http://zotero.org Zotero is an open-source citation manager that runs in Firefox and supports a bunch of proprietary formats. It offers OOo Writer integration that currently relies on an unsupported Basic plugin and has proven to be less than entirely robust, but I've been using it for months more or less happily. There is more robust OOo Writer integration in the works using a Python plugin that should be released shortly. Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org". |