Hi Floris, Since you specify align=left in the setup of your description, I don’t see why the output would be unexpected. With the following version of your example code I get the attached PDF output. %%% begin \setuppapersize[A5] \definedescription[descr][ headstyle=bold, style=normal, % align=flushright, location=hanging, width=broad, margin=1cm ] \starttext \startdescr{Para} This is a shorter item label, and some text that talks about it. The text is wrapped into a paragraph, with successive lines indented. This is another paragraph under the "Para" item. \startdescr{Sub Item} This is a description of an item which is within the "Para" item. \stopdescr \startdescr{Sub Item} Another Sub Item \stopdescr \stopdescr \startdescr{Short} A short item that's not part of that really long "Para" item. \stopdescr \stoptext %%% end

On 3 Mar 2017, at 09:59, Floris van Manen wrote:

The documentation on page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Description http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Description

provides sample code to stack multiple levels of description such as:

\setuppapersize[A5] \definedescription[descr][

headstyle=bold, style=normal, align=left, location=hanging, width=broad, margin=1cm ] \starttext \startdescr{Para}

This is a shorter item label, and some text that talks about it. The text is wrapped into a paragraph, with successive lines indented.

This is another paragraph under the "Para" item.

\startdescr{Sub Item}

This is a description of an item which is within the "Para" item.

\stopdescr \startdescr{Sub Item}

Another Sub Item

\stopdescr \stopdescr \startdescr{Short}

A short item that's not part of that really long "Para" item.

\stopdescr \stoptext

which should generate the included rendering.

But reality is somewhat more diverse … My current context / luatex, as well as the online context engine come up with a different rendering

Even when you correct for the right/left alignment, the itemising does not properly stack up:

It there a work around ?

$ context --version

mtx-context | ConTeXt Process Management 0.63 mtx-context | mtx-context | main context file: /Applications/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/context.mkiv mtx-context | current version: 2016.09.24 12:40

$ luatex --version This is LuaTeX, Version 1.0.0 (TeX Live 2017/dev)

Thanks

.Floris van Manen

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