Hi Hans, the \blank command is ignored when the complete list is printed with \placesetups because packed mode is used, with a normal \vskip this doesn’t happen. I reduced the skip because “.75\lineheight” looks better for commands without optional arguments. \startxmlsetups xml:setups:typeset \getvalue{\e!start setuptext} ... \xmldoif{#1}{/arguments} { \bgroup \enablemode[setups-pass-two] \doglobal\newcounter\currentSETUPargument - \blank[\v!line] + \godown[.75\lineheight] \switchtobodyfont[small] \ignorespaces\xmlfilter{#1}{/arguments/text()}\endgraf \egroup } \getvalue{\e!stop setuptext} \stopxmlsetups Wolfgang