Curiouslearn wrote:

Can someone please say whether it is possible to do what I am trying to do below?

According to the docs 'margin' should do something, but I am not sure what and it seems to have no effect over here. You can try if 'width' does what you want. Best wishes, Taco

Thanks.

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Curiouslearn wrote:

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Can someone please explain why the margin command does not work in this example? What can I do to obtain the margin.

Thanks.

\setuppapersize[letter][letter] \starttext

\input tufte

\startitemize \item This is the first item of outer list. \startitemize[a][stopper=)] \item Context is great. The more I use it the more I love it. \item Hope it continues to develop further. \stopitemize \item This is the second item of outer list. Margin command does not work below. \startitemize[a][stopper=),margin=2in] \item Context is great. The more I use it the more I love it. \item Hope it continues to develop further. \stopitemize \stopitemize

\input tufte

\stoptext

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Am 12.12.2009 um 02:22 schrieb Curiouslearn:

I suppose you can think of 'margin=dimension' option as increasing the margin by the specified dimension for the list. It works without any problems for a list that is not nested within another list. However, with nesting, as in the example I emailed, it does not work.

I tried the 'width' command but that does not do what I want. It inserts the space between the item symbol and the item text. I want the space before item symbol.

You can change the margin only on the first level. \starttext \startitemize \item item 1 \startitemize[a][stopper=)] \item item 1a \item item 1b \stopitemize \item item 2 \startitemize[a][stopper=),width=3cm,left={\hspace[normal]}] \item item 2a \item item 2b \stopitemize \stopitemize \stoptext Wolfgang

Thanks Wolfgang and Luigi. Luigi's solution worked well. Unfortunately, left={hspace[normal]} did not give the desired outcome. The item symbols were still at their original location. I have a follow up question. Based on your solution I also tried left=\hskip 2.10em, which works too? Is there a reason why \kern is better than \hskip? Thanks. On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 1:37 AM, luigi scarso wrote:

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Curiouslearn wrote:

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Can someone please explain why the margin command does not work in this example? What can I do to obtain the margin.

Thanks.

\setuppapersize[letter][letter] \starttext

\input tufte

\startitemize        \item This is the first item of outer list.                \startitemize[a][stopper=)]                        \item Context is great. The more I use it the more I love it.                        \item Hope it continues to develop further.                \stopitemize        \item This is the second item of outer list. Margin command does not work below.                \startitemize[a][stopper=),margin=2in]                        \item Context is great. The more I use it the more I love it.                        \item Hope it continues to develop further.                \stopitemize \stopitemize

\input tufte

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As wolfgang already wrote

\setuppapersize[letter][letter] \setupitemize[2][stopper={:},left={\kern2.10em},width=\dimexpr 2.10em+1em\relax] \starttext \input tufte \startitemize       \item This is the first item of outer list.               \startitemize[a]                       \item Context is great. The more I use it the more it                       \item Hope it continues to develop further.               \stopitemize       \item This is the second item of outer list. Margin command does not work below.               \startitemize[a]                       \item Context is great. The more I use it the more I love it.                       \item Hope it continues to develop further.               \stopitemize \stopitemize \input tufte \stoptext

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