Dear Hans, In transferring some stuff from mkii to mkiv, I noticed a change in the way mkiv puts too much distance between the title of an enumeration and the text following it. I am not sure whether I have noticed this before, but my feeling is that the change is somewhat recent. I have put the result of the source below here, http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4316076/enumeration-mkii.pdf and http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4316076/enumeration-mkiv.pdf I think the correct behaviour is the one with mkii. Best regards: OK PS: here is the source file: %%% begin enumeration-mkiv.tex \defineenumeration[exo] [location=hanging, text=Exercise, between=, before=, stopper={.}, after= \blank] \starttext \startexo This is a test with mkiv. \startitemize[n] \item First question. \item Second question. \stopitemize \stopexo \stoptext %%% end enumeration-mkiv.tex