I love you guys more than paying for Zuckerberg’s New Yacht and Private Island, BUT the Anarchy stream has become a bit much and counter productive. Please spend some time developing Style Sheets which conform to commonly used APA, Chicago, and Turabian style manuals that the rest of the existing world HAS to conform to. I have now spent DAYS trying to turn off the Auto This and Correct That technology that is not helpful when attempting to conform to the rules of English that are forced upon students like my husband trying to write in APA style. Take it one step deeper and incorporate an LLM/AI that will save time cutting and pasting from Deepseek, ChatGPT, or Gemini into LibreOffice.
There no “Style Sheets” in LO Writer. There are templates which contain styles and initial contents upon which you can base a document.
APA, Chicago and Turabian are only some of the “personalities” for documents. There are many many others.
Of course, it would be nice to have all those formatting conventions already at hand. But, this calls for a methodology to use them. Are you driving your Writer documents with styles without any direct (or manual) formatting? Are you following the Writer philosophy?
If the answer is no, you could have all the formatting templates you want, you’ll still endure pain to achieve the aesthetic requirements.
You’re welcome to try and implement a template and make it available to the community.
PS: personally, I don't enable the "Auto This and Correct That" because they are provided as a quick'n'dirty courtesy feature for common day-to-day tasks and, IMHO, are not fit for sophisticated jobs like APA. Also I have my own preferences. The key issue here is to adhere to the style philosophy which removes many of the needs for auto-this-and-that.
PPS: contributors on this site are mainly users like you, not developers.
PPPS: I had a quick search on the internet and it appears neither APA, Chicago nor Turabian are freely available. I have no idea if some compliant template can be developed without copyright issues.
It’s so delightful to hear about your personal preferences. Where do you summer?