I don't think the current behavior is a bug, so the following is a feature request: With the following fairly minimal example \setupregister[index][indicator=no, distance=0.5em] \starttext ABC\index{x}DEF\index{x+yyz} \blank \placeindex \stoptext the distance parameter sets (1) the hanging indentation of the 'yyz' subentry and also (2) the distance between an entry and its pagenumber. (That's what a look at strc-reg.mkiv shows too.) It's a matter of taste, but my eye thinks that 0.5em is right for no. 2, but too small for no. 1 -- whereas the default (1em) is just right for no. 1 but too large for no. 2. Thus, could the two dimensions be decoupled and bcome settable indepently? Perhaps keep 'distance' for the entry--pagenumber distance (no. 2), which is its meaning on the wiki, and invent 'subdistance' for the hanging indent (no. 1)? I've just realized a cheap hack to do the same, so maybe it's not worth messing with backward compatability by adding a new parameter. The hack: \def\blah#1{#1\hskip-0.5em} \setupregister[index][indicator=no, distance=1em, textcommand=\blah] -- -Sanjoy http://savelongwharfpark.org/ Save Long Wharf Park in Boston Harbor! http://streetfightingmath.com/ Six reasoning tools to make hard problems easy.