Thank you - that works fine; especially the first, in which the problems
read in order across, rather than down in columns.

cheers,
Alasdair

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Wolfgang Schuster <
schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:

>
> Am 11.03.2011 um 04:07 schrieb Alasdair McAndrew:
>
> > The trouble arises when I put my tables into narrower, framedtext so as
> to be able to force proper indentation:
>
> Use tabulate.
>
> \starttext
>
> \startitemize[n]
> \dorecurse{20}
>  {\item This is a test
>    \starttabulate[|*{8}{l|}]
>    \NC (a) \NC Problem 1
>   \NC (b) \NC Problem 2
>   \NC (c) \NC Problem 3
>   \NC (d) \NC Problem 4 \NC\NR
>    \TB[3mm]
>    \NC (e) \NC Problem 5
>   \NC (f) \NC Problem 6
>   \NC (g) \NC Problem 7
>   \NC (h) \NC Problem 8 \NC\NR
>    \stoptabulate}
>  \stopitemize
>
> \page
>
> \startitemize[n]
> \dorecurse{20}
>  {\startitem Some text
>     \startitemize[a,columns,four,unpacked][left=(,right=),stopper=]
>     \dorecurse{8}{\startitem Problem \recurselevel \stopitem}
>     \stopitemize
>   \stopitem}
> \stopitemize
>
> \stoptext
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
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