On Thu, 01 Jan 2015 20:48:48 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster
You need \setuphead[subject][incrementnumber=list] because when you write „incrementnumber=yes” you tell context to increment the counter for \subject which uses by default the \section counter.
I see. thanks a lot. I took my 'wisdom' from http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Table_of_Contents#Including_unnumbered_heads_i... which seems somewhat deficient. I'd try to augment that section. anyway, there seems no documentation of what `incrementnumber=list' is doing? is it only there to lead to listing/inclusion of the respective section type in the ToC? although you've solved my present problem perfectly: _is_ there a way to reset the (sub)section counters (or to set them to prescribed values)? joerg -- Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/