Hi, I'm new to ConTeXt and decided to teach myself a bit by resetting my old thesis (originally done, many years ago, in LaTeX). As the purpose is to teach myself ConTeXt rather than just have an electronic version of the thesis I decided to try to do things the "right" way. So, in setting the title page I followed the pattern shown on Contextgarden here: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Document_Titles. That page shows how to define a nice \placetitle command with an associated \setuptitle which allows us to define values for title, subject, and date. However, I want also to be able to define values for degree, subject, and committee (to follow the school-standard LaTeX style file I had from all those years ago). I can't work out how to do this. Simply using a variable like \c!degree (to match the \c!title I found in the example) doesn't work, as ConTeXt doesn't know about such a control sequence. I was quite puzzled for a while but then it dawned on me that the example I found on contextgarden works because the keys it uses (for key/value pairs) are ones that are already defined in the ConTeXt system: title, subject, date. My attempt fails because the system doesn't know about degree, subject, and committee. I tried defining a new variable with startvariables, but that didn't appear to help. So, my question: what do I need to do to define a new key that can be used in a key/value pair? Here's an example of what I tried: \startvariables all degree: degree \stopvariables \definesystemvariable{tp} % title page \def\setuptitlepage{\dodoubleempty\dosetuptitlepage} \def\dosetuptitlepage[#1][#2]% {\ifsecondargument \dodosetuptitlepage[#1][#2]% \else \dodosetuptitlepage[\v!content][#1]% \fi} \def\dodosetuptitlepage[#1][#2]% {\def\dododosetuptitlepage##1% {\getparameters[\??tp##1][#2]}% \processcommalist[#1]\dododosetuptitlepage} \def\placetitlepage {\startalignment[\v!middle] \doattributes{\??tp\c!degree}\c!style\c!color\@@tpcontentdegree \stopalignment} \setuptitlepage [\c!degree] [\c!style=\tfa,\c!color=] \startfrontmatter \placetitlepage \stopfrontmatter \starttext \stoptext Cheers, Rory