Ok, after taking deep breath I'll try this issue again. I got indenting to work after putting \noindenting inside its own environment. However, the following code block stopped working recently and I don't know why: \defineXMLenvironment[body] {\bgroup \rm\setupwhitespace[none] \setupindenting[small,yes] \startcolumns[rule=on,n=2,tolerance=strict] {\noindenting} } {\stopcolumns \egroup} It just doesn't indent anything, even after removing the {\noindenting} environment. Christopher --------------------------------o00o-------------------------------- “Since light travels faster than sound, isn’t that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak” — Steve Wright