Am 11.11.2011 um 02:22 schrieb Pontus Lurcock:

> On Fri 11 Nov 2011, Christian wrote:
> 
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> is the following possible?
>> 
>> List of figures
>> 1.1 Figure caption . . . . . . 2
>> 
>> <page break>
>> *imagine figure here
>> Figure 1.1: Figure caption is a lot longer than it appears in the list of 
>> figures.
>> 
>> I'd like to shorten the captions in the list of figures that I
>> produce using \placelist[figure] (preferably cut off clean, no
>> ellipsis or the like). I know about \nomarking{} but it seems to
>> apply only to chapter, section etc. titles.
> 
> This is indeed possible, using \select; see
> http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20060501.171706.24b88466.en.html .
> 
> Example usage:
> 
> \defineselector[caption][max=2,n=2]
> \starttext
> \setupselector[caption][n=1]
> \completelistoffigures
> \setupselector[caption][n=2]
> \placefigure[][]
> {\select{caption}
>  {A short caption}
>  {A rather longer caption which will appear below the figure itself}}
>  {This is the content of the actual figure}
> \stoptext

WIth the current beta you can write:

\startplacefigure[title={A rather long caption …},list={A short caption}]
\externalfigure[…]
\stopplacefigure

Wolfgang
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