Unfortunately the Tools > Footnote and Endnote (.uno:FootnoteDialog) command isnt contextually enabled/disable within the cursor is in the footnote and endnote area of a document, so we need such an uno command to be created for this scenario, so that it can be included in the context menu.
Gulsah Kose committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=0b819a1f0704b82b16007ba707e49ad4082311df tdf#103258 Add contextual edit footnote endnote command. It will be available in 5.4.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Thanks. Version: 5.4.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 0e0fef10002b46965edad02b3f460a502d9f6595 CPU Threads: 2; OS Version: Linux 3.19; UI Render: default; VCL: gtk2; TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@70-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2017-02-09_01:24:57 Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); Calc: group
Yousuf Philips committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=4d37e30514d5bbf635c754652d01ac3329479f76 tdf#103258 Contextual footnote in its own section It will be available in 5.4.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.