Re: Multicolumn itemizations - again...

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Marcin Borkowski wrote:

> However, I tried \startitemize[1] and it didn't work (neither at my
> computer nor in online ConTeXt, with the example I have provided on my
> user page).

[n=1]

> Please do not think that I am angry at you, Hans, or anything like that;
> I really admire your (and not only your) work with ConTeXt.  But I am a
> bit disappointed - and hope that itemizations will eventually work.  And
> now I guess I'll have to work this around in some nasty way (most
> probably, I'll just do the only one-column itemization by hand).

well, although tex can do a lot, there are limitations; column related 
stuff for instance is a matter of programming all possible aspects of 
it; and there can be conflicting demands

> And you may be pretty sure that I will be a good beta-tester for the
> itemization stuff - as I already told, I use itemizations a lot,
> together with math, nesting itemizations, two-column ones etc.  For the
> purpose of testing any new things in this area I'm leaving the examples
> on my user page, too.

ok; but as mentioned before only mkiv will have improved itemizations

> PS. Looking back at the steady progress of ConTeXt & luatex, I am pretty
> sure that this _will_ be solved in finite time anyway, so I can just
> \relax, wait and then test and provide feedback;).

thanks

Hans

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