Hi Jarda and all, I tested it on my computer using CTX from TL 2010 and 2013 and I have got the same result in both cases. It seems that the content of the option before is completely ignored. I tested another values for this option (\page,\vskip,\godown...), no result. The only one way which works is the manual addition of \blank before and after the nested itemize environment, unfortunatelly. --- Another interesting thing is that the compiler of CTX in TL 2013 does not report an error when I forgot the opening \starttext, or the closing \stoptext, or both, whereas in TL 2010 it does. Is this expected behaviour? Best regards, Tomas Hala Thu, Oct 24, 2013 ve 12:45:01PM +0200 Jaroslav Hajtmar napsal(a): # Hello ConTeXist. # # I tried convert plainTeX source code into ConTeXt source code so # that the output PDF gave the same (or approximately the same) # result. I did it for one of plainTEX developers (Mr. Olšák), which # compared results of PlainTeX, LaTeX and ConTeXt. However, I # encountered the following problem. # # Is there a way to adjust the spacing before internal itemize # environment when the external itemize environment is set as PACKED? # # Thanx JaroslavHajtmar # # Here is my minimal example: # # # \setupitemize[1][packed][symbol=n,before={\blank[medium]},after={\blank[medium]}] # \setupitemize[2][packed][symbol=a,stopper=),before={\blank[big]},after={\blank[big]}] # # \starttext # # This is normal text before itemize list. # # \startitemize # \item First 1 level # \item Second 1 level # \startitemize # \item First 2 level (before this line should be big space) # \item Second 2 level # \item Third 2 level (after this line should be big space) # \stopitemize # \item Third 1 level # \item Fourth 1 level # \stopitemize # # This is normal text after itemize list. # # # \stoptext # # ___________________________________________________________________________________ # If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! # # maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context # webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net # archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ # wiki : http://contextgarden.net # ___________________________________________________________________________________ Tomáš Hála -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mendelova univerzita, Provozně ekonomická fakulta, ústav informatiky Zemědělská 1, CZ-613 00 Brno, tel. +420 545 13 22 28 -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://akela.mendelu.cz/~thala