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Hello, I just completed a "big" project making heavy use of columnset, columnsetspan and paragraphs. Very powerful! Two questions, first: What is the real difference between columns and columnset? I am a bit confused* about their coexistence. Is this purposeful or necessary (or is it simply historical)? Is \startcolumns simply an unnamed, "default" columnset? (*and the wiki page needs to be clarified...) Second question, maybe a bug? \startitemize[columns] does not interact well: I suspect that it could or should use paragraphs internally rather than columns so as to work within a column(set). Minimal example: \starttext \startitemize[columns] \item first \item second \item third \stopitemize \startcolumns[n=2] \startitemize[columns] \item forth \item fifth \item sixth \stopitemize \column \startitemize[columns] \item seventh \item eighth \item nineth \stopitemize \stopcolumns \stoptext Gives something like: •_first_____________________•_third •_second •_forth____________________•_seventh •_fifth_____________________•_eighth •_sixth____________________•_nineth Whereas I was expecting: •_first_____________________•_third •_second •_forth__•_sixth___________•_seventh_•_nineth •_fifth_____________________•_eighth Alan