Am 16.05.2015 um 11:09 schrieb henman :

In the below example, used with the latest standalone ConTeXt version, I can only get \hskip to work when the parameter is 1 dimension unit. e.g. 1em or 1cm for example.

How can I get a larger horizontal space say 3em , rather that having to write \hskip 1em \hskip 1em \hskip 1em three times?

Your problem is the use of \crlf to force line breaks because the commands prevents the indentation of the following line. The reason why the first line of each block is intended is the empty line before it which ends the previous paragraph. To ensure your indentation setting is taken into account use \par (or a empty line) or the \\ command which does the same when used in the argument of \framed. \starttext \startframed[align=flushleft] Line 1\crlf \hskip 1em\relax Line 2\crlf \hskip 2em\relax Line 3 \stopframed \startframed[align=flushleft] Line 1\par \hskip 1em\relax Line 2\par \hskip 2em\relax Line 3 \stopframed \startframed[align=flushleft] Line 1\\ \hskip 1em\relax Line 2\\ \hskip 2em\relax Line 3 \stopframed \stoptext Wolfgang