A quick look at the attached pdf extract from my current Table of Contents will demonstrate the problem. I need authors names, chapter titles and/or date range to line up correctly underneath each other, but because of the definitions I am working with (see below how the current result has been acheived) I do not know how to get these precise margin (I presume?) distances. So, for example, the author for the Preface needs to line up directly under the author for the Foreword. And the title for Chapters One/Two and the date range for Chapter Three likewise. The 'Context' item is a \section and I have got that more or less to line up by using an \hspace definition, but I know that using two very different definitions is likely to cause problems. (Alternatively, they could all line up under the title for Chapter One, so a bit further in. What *has to happen* is that they all line up accurately under each other, whichever solution I use). My real problem  is that I do not know how get these specific distances from the left-hand side using the definitions I have. If I knew how to get, say, 3cm in from the margin for Chapter authors/titles/date ranges (given the definition below) and section authors (given its definition below), I could solve this problem, but everything I have tried does not seem to work. Wolfgang had given me the ChapterListCommand definition, and I think Hraban the SectionTocentry: (1) CHAPTERLISTCOMMAND \define[3]\ChapterListCommand   {\hbox\bgroup      \hbox to 2.5cm{\currentlistsymbol\hss}% number + labeltext      \vtop\bgroup        \hsize\dimexpr\makeupwidth-2.5cm\relax        \doifsomething{\rawstructurelistuservariable{year}}          {{\structurelistuservariable{year}}\crlf}%        \currentlistentrytitle % title        \doifsomething{\rawstructurelistuservariable{author}}          {\crlf{\structurelistuservariable{author}}}%        \hfill\currentlistentrypagenumber % pagenumber      \egroup    \egroup} Is there somewhere in here that I can specify my distances other than the \hbox 2.5cm? Note that I obviously also have (e.g. for the Preface, but I have others for Foreword, etc.): \setuplist   [preface]   [label=preface,    alternative=command,    command=\ChapterListCommand] (2) SECTIONTOCENTRY  \definehspace[twoem][2.5 em]    \define[1]\SectionTocEntry{%   #1\hspace[twoem]% title   \structurelistuservariable{author}% } \setuplist[section][   textcommand=\SectionTocEntry,   margin=.5cm] The [twoem] definition (in fact it is 2.5 em) was how I got the 'Context' author to roughly line up under the other items, but I have noticed that in some repetitions of this section, they do not line up exactly even so. Hope somebody can help - in the end I suppose I can open it in a PDF editing program and shift items under each other, but I want to achieve the correct result using ConTeXt, understandably. Julian