Thanks to all, yes, \placelistoffigures works fine

Concerning structure: yeah, thanks Alan, I used it. I think I had some issues I was not able to solve so switched to raw input.

Best

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(Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski)

On 14 Sep 2018, at 14:40, Alan Braslau <braslau.list@comcast.net> wrote:

On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:20:27 +0200
Andrea Valle <valle@di.unito.it> wrote:

Thanks Henri

actually this works in my chapter but I have a book made up of various chapters coordinate by a main.tex file
containing general setting and  e.g.

\input c_1_semiotics.tex % chapter

\input c_2_conceptions.tex

etc

The ConTeXt way of doing this is:

\component c_1_semiotics

\component c_2_conceptions

also putting

\startcomponent c_1_semiotics
...
\stopcomponent

at the beginning and end in each component file.

This project/product scheme is handled more coherently than a raw \input. Note, however, that this has nothing to do directly with the question about generating a list of figures; as already answered \placelistoffigures[criterium=chapter], for example, gives a list of figures limited to the present chapter. One can also use criterium=part, section, etc. as well as criterium=all.

Alan