Is there an option for short figure captions?

[roopesh]

LaTeX supports long and short caption:

\caption[Short title for List of Figures]{Long caption appears below the image.}

Can we add similar mechanism in figure.caption so that shorter caption is displayed in LoF section and longer one in the main document?
Eg:

#figure(
    caption: figure.caption(
        short: [Short title for List of Figures],
        [Long caption appears below the image.]
    )
)

[flokl]

Hi @roopesh,

the post linked below implements exactly this with a custom function:

How to have different text shown in figure caption and in outline?

As an alternative, you can fully customize the text that will be shown in the outline with the following code which is taken from the Typst Examples Book. #let in-outline = state("in-outline", false) #show outline: it => { in-outline.update(true) it in-outline.update(false) } #let flex-caption(long, short) = context if in-outline.get() { short } else { long } // And this is in the document. #outline(title: [Figures], target: figure) #figure( rect(), caption: flex-caption( [This…