Hi Dalyoung, I think that there must be a small bug in mkiv regarding itemize in columns, but at the same time I think that the problem comes from the fact that in your example you use inline maths and fractions: this perturbs the way the horizontal and vertical distances are calculated by mkiv. It seems that mkiv considers there is not enough horizontal space to put the four items in a row. If you use two columns the problem is solved, as you can see in the following examples (please typest it both with mkii and mkiv to see the differences). Best regards: OK %%% begin itemize-dist-bug.tex \starttext \setupitemize[1][n] % first level itemize \setupitemize[2][a,paragraph,columns][stopper=)] % second level itemize %If you want more than two columns by default add "n=x" \startitemize \item Item one \item Find a well-ordered set: \startitemize[n=4] % <--- gives correct output both in mkii and mkiv \item sub-one \item sub-two \item sub-three \item sub-four \stopitemize \hairline \startitemize[n=4] % <--- gives correct output in mkii, but not in mkiv \item $\{ 2 + \frac{1}{n}, n \in\naturalnumbers\}$ \item $[0, 1)$ \item $\{3 - \frac{2}{n}, n \in \naturalnumbers\}$ \item $ \reals$ \stopitemize \hairline \startitemize[n=4] % <--- gives incorrect output both in mkii and mkiv \item $\{ 2 + n^{-1}, n \in\naturalnumbers\}$ \item $[0, 1)$ \item $\{3 - 2n^{-1}, n \in \naturalnumbers\}$ \item $ \reals$ \stopitemize \hairline \startitemize[n=2] % <--- gives correct output both in mkii and mkiv \item sub-one \item sub-two \item sub-three \item sub-four \stopitemize \hairline \startitemize[n=2] % <--- gives correct output both in mkii and in mkiv \item $\{ 2 + \frac{1}{n}, n \in\naturalnumbers\}$ \item $[0, 1)$ \item $\{3 - \frac{2}{n}, n \in \naturalnumbers\}$ \item $ \reals$ \stopitemize \hairline \startitemize[n=2] % <--- gives correct output both in mkii and mkiv \item $\{ 2 + n^{-1}, n \in\naturalnumbers\}$ \item $[0, 1)$ \item $\{3 - 2n^{-1}, n \in \naturalnumbers\}$ \item $ \reals$ \stopitemize \hairline \stoptext %%% end itemize-dist-bug.tex Best regards: OK On 17 nov. 2012, at 05:03, Jeong Dal wrote:

Dear all,

In the following example, the vertical alignment of items looks strange.

I wonder it is my only problem. Is there anything what I have to do to correct it?

Thank you.

Best regards,

Dalyoung

% sample code

\starttext \startitemize

\item Find a well-ordered set.

\startitemize[n, columns, four][stopper=,left=(, right=)] \item $\{ 2 + \frac{1}{n}, n \in\naturalnumbers\}$ \item $[0, 1)$ \item $\{3 - \frac{2}{n}, n \in \naturalnumbers\}$ \item $ \reals$ \stopitemize \stopitemize \stoptext ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

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