Hi again Wolfgang,

I think I understood what is going wrong with my example after your hint: I have to remove all spaces around the separator and remove also the braces around each entry.

That is the following works fine:

\startseplisttalk

Hacker;Up to date hacking;hacker.jpg

\stopseplisttalk

while the following does not (as far as the filename is concerned):

\startseplisttalk

{Hacker};{Up to date hacking};{hacker.jpg}

Hacker ; Up to date hacking ; hacker.jpg

\stopseplisttalk

Is there a way to make the \defineseparatedlist command to be more tolerant for the filename?