The reason I switched to "texexec" was this (from the "Context Manual": "During the processing of itemizations the number of items is counted. This is the case with all versions. The next pass this information is used to determine the optimal location to start a new page. So do not despair when at the first parse your itemizations do not look the way you expected. When using TEXexec this is all taken care of."
Is this still a problem with "context" or is this problem somehow solved with MkIV anyway?
ConTeXt needs two passes for itemize when you use the “fit” option to determine the width for the numbers or when you use reversed or random numbers but this works in MkII and MkIV. Page breaks before/between items can be controlled by a few keywords (intro, loose etc.) but ConTeXt doesn’t use twopass information for this. Wolfgang