Dear libreoffice

Hello, my name is Colin Lichtwark. I am a postgraduate student at Swinburne University in Melbourne Australia. I am trying to use ubuntu as much as possible but the issue I have is with libre office note having an effective citation manager interface especially with mendeley. I feel this is a huge impedance to the popular adoption of ubuntu.Is the work being done in this area with your software development?.

Yours Sincerely, Colin Lichtwark

Hi Colin,

I think you are looking at this the wrong way round. Mendeley already
has an Ubuntu plugin to interface LibreOffice. It seems they initially
had some problems with this plug-in, but according to this thread
http://support.mendeley.com/customer/portal/questions/1384344-mendeley-plugin-for-libreoffice-4-1-4-
it now works as advertised. I may be wrong, because I am not a Mendeley
user (my personal preference is Zotero) but from what I read the plug-in
appears to be part of the Mendeley Desktop package, or at least
available from the Mendeley "Tools -> Install LibreOffice/OpenOffice
Plugin", see: http://www.mendeley.com/features/reference-manager/

Hope this helps.

Regards
Dave

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

Use Zotero