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 Pont ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________