Hi Wolfgang, Thanks for your explanation and patch. I appreciate it. However, with the patch, now I have the problem of correct indentation. As this example shows: \input core-itm-patch \starttext Consider\par \startframedtext[width=\textwidth] \startitemize[n][style=bold] \item As a college student, how do you rate yourself? \startitemize[5, columns, two] \item Excellent student \item Good student \item Mediocre student \item Poor student \stopitemize \stopitemize \stopframedtext versus\par \startitemize[n][style=bold] \item As a college student, how do you rate yourself? \startitemize[5, columns, two] \item Excellent student \item Good student \item Mediocre student \item Poor student \stopitemize \stopitemize \stoptext Thanks, -Hamid On 6/22/07, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

2007/6/21, Hamid Kamrani :

...

I am just wondering if this is a bug or feature or some lack of understanding on my part. The horizontal list turns into a vertical list inside a framedtext environment. The same happens in a background environment.

\starttext \startframedtext[width=\textwidth] \startitemize[5, columns, four] \item Excellent student \item Good student \item Mediocre student \item Poor student \stopitemize \stopframedtext \stoptext

-Hamid

Hi Hamid,

this can not work because itemize use for the column option the normal column environment. I wrote a example that shows the problem and gives also a solution.

\starttext

\vbox{\hsize=\textwidth \startsimplecolumns \input knuth \stopsimplecolumns}

\blank

\vbox{\hsize=\textwidth \startcolumns \input knuth \stopcolumns}

\stoptext

The second column environment use the output routine to split the content and is only activated at outer level.

A solution would be to include a test inside itemgroup whether we use itemize at outer level or inside a box.

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Thank you, Hans, for directing me to use streams. Not only it takes care of this problem it also shows me how to do some other stuff that I had struggled with. -Hamid On 6/24/07, Hans Hagen wrote:

Hamid Kamrani wrote:

...

Hi Wolfgang,

Thanks for your explanation and patch. I appreciate it. However, with the patch, now I have the problem of correct indentation. As this example shows:

\input core-itm-patch

\starttext

\usemodule[streams]

\definestreamlayer[whatever][width=12cm]

\startstreamlayer[whatever] \startitemize[columns,two][after=] \item one \item two \item three \item four \stopitemize \stopstreamlayer

\framed[strut=no,align=normal]{\placestreamlayer[whatever]\obeydepth}

\starttextstreamlayer[whatever] \startitemize[columns,two] \item one \item two \item three \item four \stopitemize \stoptextstreamlayer

\framed[strut=no]{\placetextstreamlayer[whatever]}

\stoptext

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