Hi Hans, there is a problem with the command handler and nested \setup… commands. In the following example the setting for the “two” environment are ignored. <example> \defineenumeration[one][text=One] \defineenumeration[two][text=Two] \setupenumeration[one,two][alternative=serried,color=red] \starttext \startone First enumeration. \stopone \starttwo Second enumeration. \stoptwo \stoptext </example> The reason for this behavior is the \setupcounter call in \everysetupenumeration. When you look at the internal code for \setupenumeration (mult-aux.mkiv) you see that the first element in \setupernumeration (i.e. “one”) is processed with \mult_interfaces_with_comma_list_element, at the end of this macro \everysetupenumeration. At this point \setupcounter is used which redefines \mult_interfaces_with_comma_list_element. This redefined version is used for the next element (i.e. “two”) in \setupenumeration and the values are no passed (“alternative” and “color”) to \setupcounter. \unexpanded\def\mult_interfaces_install_setup_handler#1#2#3#4#5#6#7#8% {\ifx#3\relax\let#3\empty\fi \unexpanded\def#2{\dodoubleempty#4}% \unexpanded\def#6{\mult_interfaces_get_parameters{#1#3:}}% no every ! don't change it \newtoks#5% \newtoks#8% \unexpanded\def#4[##1][##2]% maybe helper {\let#7#3% \ifsecondargument \def\mult_interfaces_with_comma_list_element####1% we will have a simple one as well {\edef#3{####1}% \mult_interfaces_get_parameters{#1#3:}[##2]% \the#5}% \processcommalist[##1]\mult_interfaces_with_comma_list_element \else \let#3\empty \mult_interfaces_get_parameters{#1:}[##1]% \the#5% \fi \let#3#7% \the#8}} Wolfgang