Hi Marcin, I tested your file and noticed the issue you are reporting. In your case you can use \startsimplecolumns to get rid of the page break (however there is a small problem with the distance between the text and the items): \startchapter[title={Nim-suma liczb całkowitych nieujemnych}] \startexercises \startitem Przelicz następujące liczby w~zapisie dwójkowym na system dziesiątkowy: \startsimplecolumns \startitemize[r][left=(,right=),stopper={}] \startitem \math{(101)_2} \stopitem \startitem \math{(101011)_2} \stopitem \stopitemize \stopsimplecolumns \stopitem \startitem Przelicz następujące liczby na system dwójkowy: \startsimplecolumns \startitemize[r][left=(,right=),stopper={}] \startitem \math{10} \stopitem \startitem \math{77} \stopitem \stopitemize \stopsimplecolumns \stopitem \stopexercises \stopchapter Best regards: OK On 30 juin 2012, at 00:16, Marcin Borkowski wrote:

Dnia 2012-06-29, o godz. 23:30:13 Marcin Borkowski napisał(a):

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Hello,

I encountered a weird problem with

\startitemize[columns]

Namely, sometimes ConTeXt (MkIV) puts a pagebreak before the itemization. I tried to distill the problem to a minimal example, until now without success, but I'll post a ME if I'm able to reproduce a problem in a small file.

OK, so I didn't succeed in isolating this problem. I attach the complete file (it's in Polish, sorry;)). The problem appears at page 3 in the resulting pdf (line 141 of the source file).

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Anybody encountered this, too? Are there any solutions/workarounds known?

I naively tried putting \page[no] in various places around the problematic line, but to no avail. Also, while trying to isolate the problem, for instance by removing things before the itemization, it turned out that it's difficult to reproduce it: often, everything is fine (at the beginning of the page as well as near the end).

Any ideas?

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Hi, The mechanisms of columns in itemize (which I think is the same as startcolumns) and in simplecolumns are indeed different, as Hans indicated once. The issue you encountered is indeed a bug as you point out: once (a few months ago) I had an analogous problem and Wolfgang S. suggested me to use simplecolumns to avoid the strange page breaks. Best regards: OK On 30 juin 2012, at 06:53, Marcin Borkowski wrote:

Dnia 2012-06-30, o godz. 05:05:31 Otared Kavian napisał(a):

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Hi Marcin,

I tested your file and noticed the issue you are reporting. In your case you can use \startsimplecolumns to get rid of the page break (however there is a small problem with the distance between the text and the items):

I knew that - but as you probably have noticed, the columns done by \startsimplecolumns and by \startitemize[columns] do not align correctly. So this is rather a workaround than a solution. (Well, thanks anyway!)

Currently I changed the file a bit and the problem disappeared, but still I'd like to know what's going on, since this tends to happen from time to time. (And this bug - because I guess it's a bug indeed - has been around for quite a few years: I noticed it for the first time something like 3 years ago...)

Best,

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