Hi, Aditya—

Many thanks. That works and looks quite good. I experimented and find that
\startitemize[repeat,broad]\getbuffer\stopitemize
looks best.  The only downside is that there is still largish a gap between the stopper and the text of the main item as in

1.   History
1.1 Pre-Greek (Babylonian and Egyptian) sundials
1.2 Greek and Roman sundials
1.3 Byzantine sundials

when

1. History
1.1 Pre-Greek (Babylonian and Egyptian) sundials
1.2 Greek and Roman sundials
1.3 Byzantine sundials

is the goal. Sadly, adding “serried” destroys the indentation of the subitems.

Alan



On Sep 30, 2007, at 5:29 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Alan Bowen wrote:

Thanks, Aditya, I have adapted this as follows—
\startbuffer
\item item 1
  \startitemize[n,stopper={},width=1em]
  \item item 1.1
 \item item 1.2
 \item item 1.3
  \stopitemize
\item item 2
   \startitemize[n,stopper={},width=1em]
\item item 2.1
 \item  item 2.2
 \item item 2.3
\stopitemize
\item item 3
  \startitemize[n,stopper={},width=1em]
 \item  item 3.1
 \item  item 3.2
\stopitemize
\stopbuffer
%
\setupitemize[n,serried,packed,joinedup]
\startitemize[repeat,4*borad]\getbuffer\stopitemize
                        ^^^^^^^
                        (add this)

and everything works, except that I cannot seems get the subitems indented. 
Right now they fall directly beneath the main items.

Aditya
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