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Friday, August 10, 2001 Allin Cottrell wrote:

AC> On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Allin Cottrell wrote:

>> E.g. I have "\Topic{David Ricardo (1772--1823)".  At present the link
>> shows up as "David..." which is not what I want.  I'd like to be able
>> to write "\Topic[Ricardo]{David Ricardo (1772--1823)" and have the
>> link show up as "Ricardo".  Any pointers on how this might be done?

AC> Sorry to follow up on my own question, but I now see that the \nolist
AC> command looks useful:

AC> \Topic{\nolist{David }Ricardo\nolist{ (1772-1823)}}

AC> almost does what I want, except that I get "...Ricardo..." and I don't
AC> want the dots.

I add myself to those who would like to have the equivalent of
LaTeX's

\sectioningcommand[short name]{Full name}

in ConTeXt. It's important to have it also because there are cases
in which you cannot just "strip off" (with \nolist) parts of the
full name to get the short name.

Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta