Colin, Thanks for posting!
LibreOffice is a community of volunteer users designers and developers. With some corporate sponsorship of all facets. Point is, that you are more than welcome to volunteer the effort to improve the product, but no one is going to do so for you simply at your behest. In fact a release build of the 4.2 branch offers reliable cross referencing and footnotes, and with current development builds (pre-4.3.0) citation and parenthetical notation has been further cleaned up. Additionally the Zotero project (Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University) already offers a fully functional extension for LibreOffice that meets technical and academic users requirements on Ubuntu and all other OSs running LibreOffice. The Mendeley project (now owned by Elsevier publishing) offers comparable functions including a "citation plugin" supporting Word, LibreOffice and BibTex. If you have specific issues of incompatibility, you can contribute by writing up and submitting complete bug reports and submitting to the appropriate project. Regards, Stuart Foote LibreOffice QA volunteer The University of Texas at San Antonio -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Dear-libreoffice-tp4107984p4108001.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted