Consider the following:
\starttext
Text before.
\startitemize[1,nowhite]
\item item 1
\item item 2
\startitemize[5,nowhite]
\item sub-item 1
\item sub-item 2
\stopitemize
\item item 3
\stopitemize
Text after.
\stoptext
Notwithstanding the "nowhite" options, there is a blank line before
sub-item 1, which I do not want.
Oddly (to me), if I change the first "nowhite" to "packed", the space
before sub-item 1 goes away, but then I get undesired space before and
after the out itemization.
Q1: Can someone explain the Zen of this? That is, why does the blank
line before sub-item 1 go away with "packed", but not "nowhite"?
Poking around on the internet, I find that if I leave the "nowhite"s, but
precede "Text before." with
\unprotect
\c_strc_itemgroups_spacing_mode=1 % 0 works too, but 2 doesn't
\protect
then I get the spacing I want.
Q2: \c_strc_itemgroups_spacing_mode seems to be an undocumented "feature".
Is there a "documented" way of making the unwanted blank line
go away, without introducing unwanted blank lines before and
after the outer itemize list?
Thanks.
Jim
