Howdy-
I've noticed that \placecontents is generating some errors, the origin
of which I'm not quite able to identify. The following typesets fine
when the \placecontents is commented out...
\setupoutput[pdftex]
\definelist[chapter]
\setuplist[chapter][before=\blank,style=cap]
\setuplist[section]
\definecombinedlist[contents][chapter,section]
\starttext
\placecontents
\chapter[chp:one]{First}
Text for chapter one.
\section[sec:foo]{Section title}
this is foo
\chapter[chp:two]{Second}
Text for chapter two.
\stoptext
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