Dear OpenOffice community,

Congratulations on your latest offering. I like it very much but even 
something excellent can be improved further.

1) It would be nice if you could add the possibility to change the footnote-
layout to the footnote panel  font, size, etc. It just takes too long if you 
want to change the footnote layout and you have to do it separately for every 
one of them. Lets say you have a document with 100 pages and 5 footnotes per 
page. This means that you have to alter 500. Dont you think it would be a 
good idea to add a footnote setting to the Format menu? It would enable the 
user to do a days work with about three mouse-clicks. It would also be nice 
if you could alter the size and style of the footnote numbers (e.g. upper case)
It would also be convenient, if you could force longer foot notes to appear on 
the same page without being cut in two with the rest appearing on the next 
page. (This suggestion does of course not apply to footnotes which are longer 
than the actual page!).

2) Chapter titles in the header do not appear on the same page when the title 
is not in the first line of the page. It would be nice if you could change 
this.

3) It should be possible to set more than one spacing per paragraph. The 
following example is from a paper I wrote for university. As you can see the 
quote is fairly long. Normally we are supposed to reduce the spacing of line 2 
and following of the quote to 1 even though otherwise we are supposed to use 
1.5. Unfortunately OpenOffice only supports either or per paragraph. You can 
of course start a new paragraph but it rather inconvenient if have not yet 
decided on the size of the margins.

Buckingham issues orders to snatch a child, currently under protection of 
church sanctuary from the arms of his mother, only for the sake of political 
pragmatism as Wolfgang Clemen illustrates in the following: [...] hier wird 
heiliges und in der Tradition verankertes Recht mit spitzfindiger Begründung 
gebrochen. Shakespeare läßt überdies bei seinem Appell an den Kardinal sich 
auf the grossness of the age (46) berufen, eine sehr bezeichnende, in der 
Quelle nicht gegebene Hinzufügung Shakespeares. Buckingham will sagen: 
Verglichen mit der Rohheit des Zeitalters, und unter Anlegung der Maßstäbe, 
mit denen in solcher Zeit derartige Aktionen beurteilt werden, würde der 
Kardinal, wenn er den Prinzen gewaltsam aus dem Asyl heraushole, kein Unrecht 
begehen.  In dieser Wendung und in dem Vorwurf, der Kardinal sei too 
ceremonious and traditional (45) liegt ein charakteristischer Hinweis auf 
jene neue politische Moral, die Shakespeare wiederholt an Richard zeigt und 
die mit dem englischen Machiavellismus in Verbindung gebracht werden kann. 
(Clemen, Wolfgang: Kommentar zu Richard III. Interpretation eines Dramas. 2nd 
Edition. Göttingen 1969. p. 173.)
4) The bibliography in OpenOffice, as useful as it might seem at first glance, 
unfortunately uses a footnote system which is not accepted at the university 
departments I know. Would it be possible to include the American APA system as 
an alternative? (e.g. Clemen, W., 1969, p. 173. in brackets behind the quote 
instead of in a footnote. You could add an according Feldbefehl (cf. German 
version of OpenOffice) to the respective menu.) It seems to be the compromise 
which most university departments grudgingly accept for papers and theses. I 
showed your system to one of our lecturers and and he really thought I joking 
 as you can probably guess, it is not a very healthy thing to annoy 
lecturers/professors.

5) Would it be possible to support LaTex as an alternative format. Especially 
its precision would give you the edge over Redmonds office software offerings

Thanks for reading all this and carry on with the good work.