Hi, Aditya— This works perfectly (after changing the Yen-signs for backslashes). It behaves as expected when adapted and will be a great help in producing a number of the TOCs that are on my horizon. Many thanks for your time and help! All best, Alan

On Oct 1, 2007, at 8:11 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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Hi Alan, On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Alan Bowen wrote:

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1. History 1.1 Pre-Greek (Babylonian and Egyptian) sundials 1.2 Greek and Roman sundials 1.3 Byzantine sundials is the goal. Sadly, adding “serried” destroys the indentation of the subitems. I could not find a clean way to do this. So, I redefined ¥checkforrepeatedlistitem. Hans, isn't there a clean way to do this? ¥setupitemize[1][fit,broad] ¥setupitemize[2][width=2em] ¥setupitemize[each][n] ¥def¥checkforrepeatedlistitem {¥ifnum¥itemlevel=¥plusone ¥initializeboxstack{item}% ¥fi ¥ifconditional¥repeatlistitem ¥savebox{item}{¥itemlevel}{¥hbox{¥copy8}}% ¥setbox8¥hbox %to ¥wd8 {¥setbox¥scratchbox¥hbox {¥scratchcounter¥itemlevel ¥advance¥scratchcounter¥minusone ¥dorecurse¥scratchcounter{¥foundbox{item} {¥recurselevel}}}% ¥ifnum¥itemlevel>¥plusone ¥ifdim¥wd¥scratchbox>¥zeropoint %¥hskip-¥dimen2 ¥box¥scratchbox ¥fi ¥fi ¥box8 }% ¥fi} ¥starttext ¥startitemize[repeat] ¥item item 1 ¥startitemize ¥item item 1.1 ¥item item 1.2 ¥item item 1.3 ¥stopitemize ¥item item 2 ¥startitemize ¥item item 2.1 ¥item item 2.2 ¥item item 2.3 ¥stopitemize ¥item item 3 ¥startitemize ¥item item 3.1 ¥item item 3.2 ¥stopitemize ¥stopitemize ¥stoptext Aditya