On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 2:15 PM, <hwitloc@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I want to mave minimal inter-column spacing in the following construct, or
> be able to specify a maximum width for the full populated reactangular area.
>
> For example the results of the below source have inter-column spacing of
> about 5 cm.
>
> Regards
>
>
> ----------------- minimum example (How to specify an overall width or the
> inter-column spacing.
> \starttext
> \startitemize[none,columns,three,packed,joinedup,8*serried,][width=0mm]
>         \item A \item B \item C
>         \item D \item E \item F
>         \item G \item H \item I
> \stopitemize
> \stoptext
>


Maybe starttabulate
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/starttabulate
?
-- 
luigi