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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________