Table of Authorities: Pages (iWork ‘09-Mac) Don’t Cut it, use OpenOffice
So I have been taking quite a bit of time I do not have to figure out how to create a Table of Authorities for a legal brief I have to write in Pages (OS X, iWork, Mac). Short answer is: You can’t do it. You can do light Table of Contents, but no index like function. But, OpenOffice can do it right…. with a lot of hassle.
However, if you need to do citation management and bibliography for law/legal or science journals that can be done using BibDesk AND Jim Harrison’s VERY helpful CiteInPages. This won’t get you page numbers associated with citations as needed for a TOA, but it will help you cite.
For simple documents, you can use the Alphabetical Index feature of OpenOffice. Just mark each case (only the short-cite.. e.g. Marbury) in the cite. Then INSERT the index into your document on the Table of Authorities page and choose Combine Identical Entries. This will give each entry in the table as the Short-Cite case name and then all the pages on which it appears.
DON’T WORRY ABOUT THIS FOR BASIC TOA: BUT,IF for some reason you need to include the page numbers like “i,ii” AND “1,2,3″ in the same table, you will need to create a Master Document and make sure that each sub-document has a unique Page Style. This will get the page numbering correct.. e.g. “Marbury……………………. i,iii,1,3,5″. If you do not not structure the master document/sub-document you will get “……….. 1,3,5,i,iii” because open office sorts numbers before letters WITHIN THE SAME DOCUMENT. But, using master/sub-document lets you control this.