Thank you - that works fine; especially the first, in which the problems read in order across, rather than down in columns.
cheers,
Alasdair
Am 11.03.2011 um 04:07 schrieb Alasdair McAndrew:
Use tabulate.
> The trouble arises when I put my tables into narrower, framedtext so as to be able to force proper indentation:
\starttabulate[|*{8}{l|}]
\starttext
\startitemize[n]
\dorecurse{20}
{\item This is a test
\NC (a) \NC Problem 1\TB[3mm]
\NC (b) \NC Problem 2
\NC (c) \NC Problem 3
\NC (d) \NC Problem 4 \NC\NR
\NC (e) \NC Problem 5\stoptabulate}
\NC (f) \NC Problem 6
\NC (g) \NC Problem 7
\NC (h) \NC Problem 8 \NC\NR
\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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