Re: Use of titleabbrev in list of figurea and tables

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

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/ Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.com> was heard to say:
|> \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?

For figure, it probably is what you need. DocBook doesn't really have
anything appropriate for "caption" except in mediaobject. I don't
recall why we added it to mediaobject and I sortof wish we hadn't
since it makes us look schizophrenic.

Anyway, file the feature request for using titleabbrev in the ToCs and
I'll see what I can do.

In the meantime, over on the docbook list (not here) perhaps we should
talk a little bit about the relationship between title and caption and
see if we can't come up with something a little more logical.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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