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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