Hello list, I wish to bring the discussion again on displayed material. Display material is material that conceptually belongs to a paragraphs but typographically breaks it. After the display, the paragraph can continue or not. In ConTeXt, there are many things which should be considered displayed material: formulas, enumerations and other itemgroups, quotations, etc. Every start/stop pair that begins a new paragraph should actually be a displayed area. In ConTeXt, one can achieve such result by using [intentnext=yes] or [indentnext=no] on a case-by-case basis, depending on whether the start/stop pair is supposed to start a new paragraph or not. Of course, this "manual" way to do the thing goes against the general principle that the computer is supposed to do as much of the job as possible, by itself. I therefore wish to urge Hans to implement a new indentnext option, "auto", which should give a behaviour similar to the one shown on this example: === BEGIN displayed.tex === \setupindenting[medium] \definestartstop[display][before=\initdisplay,after=\terminatedisplay,style=italic] \def\initdisplay{\ifvmode\else\endgraf\noindent\fi \bgroup\advance\leftskip2\parindent\advance\rightskip2\parindent\ignorespaces} \def\terminatedisplay{\par\egroup\afterassignment\checkifpar\let\ispar=} \def\checkifpar{\ifx\ispar\par\else\noindent\expandafter\ispar\fi} \starttext The purpouse of this document is to practically show how display material should behave: display material is material that conceptually belongs to a paragraphs but typographically breaks it After the display, the paragraph can continue or not. We now quote Knuth: \startdisplay \input knuth \stopdisplay and continue the paragraph right after. The following quote will instead end the paragraph: \startdisplay \input tufte \stopdisplay This text belongs to a different paragraph: note that it's being indented (differently from the previous snippet). This paragraph has no quotations. Instead, the next paragraph will start with a quotation (display material at the beginning of the paragraph) and have some text after~it. \startdisplay \input knuth \stopdisplay is again a quote from Knuth. Observe that this way the source obeys the \TeX\ convention of empy lines to terminate paragraphs, and that it is not necessary to manually specify the intentnext option for the single cases. \stoptext === END displayed.tex === The paragraph-wise behaviour of \initdisplay and \terminatedisplay+\checkifpar (i.e. excluding the left-/rightskip adaptments, which have only a visual purpouse) should be the behaviour in case indentnext=auto. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta