Friday, February 28, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote: HH> so, it's there already; in principle the following should work: HH> \setupitemgroup[test][levellist][keyvals] HH> \setupitemgroup[test][levellist][keys] HH> \setupitemgroup[test][levellist][keyvals][keys] HH> \setupitemgroup[test][keyvals] HH> \setupitemgroup[test][keys] HH> \setupitemgroup[test][keyvals][keys] The problem is it doesn't work for all keywords: try for example: \defineitemgroup[test] \setupitemgroup[each][A,columns] \starttest \item one \item two \item three \item four \item five \stoptext \starttest[A,columns] \item one \item two \item three \item four \item five \stoptext You will see that the "A" and "columns" settings don't get through. AFAICS from the code, this depends on these settings being looked for only after the \start<...> thing, and not in some kind of more global setting like the ones that refer to spacing. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta