On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 6:28 PM Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:
On 11/22/2021 10:49 AM, musa furber via ntg-context wrote:
> I am relatively new to ConTeXt and have encountered something that does
> not work as I expected it to based on various documentation and examples.
>
> My book design requires the front matter to contain an abridged table of
> contents just for chapters, and a detailed table of contents in the back
> matter.
>
> Everything worked fine -- including the PDF bookmarks and table of
> contents -- until I started using \writetolist to manually inject
> additional sections and subsections into their respective lists. The
> manually injected entries do show up (as I expected), but their
> corresponding PDF bookmarks get repeated (not what I expected).
you can probably best use

\startsection[title={...},list={...},bookmark={...}]
        ...
\stopsection

Thank you, Hans. This pointer is exactly what I needed.