Quoting from the command reference: \startframedtext inherits \setupframedtext and \setupframedtext ... indenting = inherits \setupindenting I interprete this as \setupindenting is carried to the inside of the framedtext but this thus not happen. Instead one explicitely sets it on the call of \startframedtext. Why doesn't \startframedtext inherit the value from the document? This is a problem because I need this setup for framedtexts called in an inner module. A second, even more serious problem for me is that the framedtext is ignoring the \setupwhitespace. For both problems see the example below. Hans van der Meer \setupindenting[yes,first,medium] \setupwhitespace[big] \starttext \ConTeXt-version = \contextversion Text for testing indenting of praragraphs. A lot of nonsense just to fill the paragraph so that more than one line is typeset. A lot of nonsense just to fill the paragraph so that more than one line is typeset. Text for testing indenting of praragraphs. A lot of nonsense just to fill the paragraph so that more than one line is typeset. A lot of nonsense just to fill the paragraph so that more than one line is typeset. \tex{startframedtext[width=\textwidth]}\crlf \startframedtext[width=\textwidth] Text for testing indenting of praragraphs. A lot of nonsense just to fill the paragraph so that more than one line is typeset. A lot of nonsense just to fill the paragraph so that more than one line is typeset. Text for testing indenting of praragraphs. A lot of nonsense just to fill the paragraph so that more than one line is typeset. A lot of nonsense just to fill the paragraph so that more than one line is typeset. \stopframedtext \tex{startframedtext[width=\textwidth,indenting={yes,first,medium}]}\crlf \startframedtext[width=\textwidth,indenting={yes,first,medium}] \setupwhitespace[big]\tex{setupwhitespace[big]}\par Text for testing indenting of praragraphs. A lot of nonsense just to fill the paragraph so that more than one line is typeset. A lot of nonsense just to fill the paragraph so that more than one line is typeset. Text for testing indenting of praragraphs. A lot of nonsense just to fill the paragraph so that more than one line is typeset. A lot of nonsense just to fill the paragraph so that more than one line is typeset. \stopframedtext \stoptext