Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Use of titleabbrev in list of figurea and tables

[Joachim Ziegler <ziegler@mpi-sb.mpg.de>]

Bob Stayton wrote:
>>I'm just wondering why titleabbrevs are not used in the list of 
>>figures/tables.
>>


> You could file a Request for Enhancement (RFE) at DocBook's
> SourceForge site.  Speaking for myself, I wouldn't want to
> see this as the default behavior, but it could be an
> option.
> 


Hmm, maybe I don't quite understand the meaning of title and titleabbrev 
here. Especially in figures with "scientific content", I often have a 
large explanation of what is depicted in the figure. In LaTeX, I do that 
with

\caption[short explanation]{very long explanation}

There, the list of figures only shows the [short explanation], because 
the {very long explanation} were just too long.

Maybe <title> and <titleabbrev> is not what I need? But what else then?

Greetings,
Joachim