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------- Additional comments from bigjimsl...@openoffice.org Mon Nov 30 17:35:01 
+0000 2009 -------
Let me add to this a number of things:
1. There are many legal citation formats.
2. Citation formats require italics/underling and sometimes smallcaps.
3. The appearance of the TOA entry, is often not the same as the citation in the
text. For example, the text may include a page number in the cite:

Felder v. Casey, 487 U.S. 131, 151 (1988) (With the case name in italics)

that should appear as

Felder v. Casey, 487 U.S. 131 (1988) (With the case name still in italics).

After a case has been referenced, there are several short forms that can be used
in the text, including:

Id.
Felder, 487 U.S. at 152

4. This is a feature that Word does VERY poorly. In fact, most attorneys do it
by manually.

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A. There needs to be an ability for the user to create TOA groups (e.g
"Statutory Materials", "Regulations", "Cases") and an ordering for those grous.
A. There needs to be an ability to specify a citation that will appear in the
TOA, a group assignment, and how it will appear (an index entry).
B. There needs to be a mechanism mark points in the text where the TOA entry
appears.
B. There needs to be an ability to generate a TOA in various forms. This should
include sorting the entries in alphabetical or numeric order.
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Useful features would be to allow editing and correcting from within the TOA
itself. For example, if a case appears under the statute section, it would be
desirable to be able to select the entry in the TOA and change it to a case.

If an entry appears multiple times (ie variations in spelling), it would be
desirable to be able to select the spelling variation and reassign it to the
desired spelling.

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