The documentation on page
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