The documentation on page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Description provides sample code to stack multiple levels of description such as: \setuppapersize[A5] \definedescription[descr][ headstyle=bold, style=normal, align=left, location=hanging, width=broad, margin=1cm ] \starttext \startdescr{Para} This is a shorter item label, and some text that talks about it. The text is wrapped into a paragraph, with successive lines indented. This is another paragraph under the "Para" item. \startdescr{Sub Item} This is a description of an item which is within the "Para" item. \stopdescr \startdescr{Sub Item} Another Sub Item \stopdescr \stopdescr \startdescr{Short} A short item that's not part of that really long "Para" item. \stopdescr \stoptext which should generate the included rendering. But reality is somewhat more diverse … My current context / luatex, as well as the online context engine come up with a different rendering Even when you correct for the right/left alignment, the itemising does not properly stack up: It there a work around ? $ context --version mtx-context | ConTeXt Process Management 0.63 mtx-context | mtx-context | main context file: /Applications/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/context.mkiv mtx-context | current version: 2016.09.24 12:40 $ luatex --version This is LuaTeX, Version 1.0.0 (TeX Live 2017/dev) Thanks .Floris van Manen