I don’t know if I use it wrongly, or it’s a bug in ConTeXt, but use \setuplist with numbercommand renders wrongly % this is not working, ``chapter’’ and chapter name overlapped \define[2]\ChapterNumber{chapter #1: #2} % have to add extra spaces here to avoid overlapping % \define[2]\ChapterNumber{chapter #1:\space\space\space\space\space\space #2} \setuplist[section][numbercommand=\ChapterNumber] \starttext \completecontent \section{blabla} blabla \section{blabla} blabla \section{blabla} blabla \stoptext I use ConTeXt standalone with Mac OS X mtx-context | ConTeXt Process Management 1.02 mtx-context | mtx-context | main context file: /Volumes/DATA/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/context.mkiv mtx-context | current version: 2017.12.04 16:37