Looks like a bug; adding blank rows works around the problem (but looks terrible):
\definemathmatrix[pmatrix] [left={\left(\,},right={\,\right)}] \starttext Digueu quines de les matrius següents són regulars. Quan ho siguin, trobeu la inversa \startitemize[a,columns,four] \item \startpmatrix[n=4] \NC \NR \NC 2 \NC 3 \NR \NC 6 \NC 7 \NR \NC \NR \stoppmatrix \item \startpmatrix[n=4] \NC 3 \NC 2 \NC 1 \NR \NC 4 \NC 5 \NC 3 \NR \NC 5 \NC 0 \NC -2 \NR \NC \stoppmatrix \item \startpmatrix[n=4] \NC 5 \NC 4 \NC 2 \NR \NC 2 \NC 2 \NC 3 \NR \NC 7 \NC 6 \NC 5 \NR \NC \stoppmatrix \item \startpmatrix[n=4] \NC a \NC 0 \NC 0 \NC 0 \NR \NC 0 \NC b \NC 0 \NC 0 \NR \NC 0 \NC 0 \NC c \NC 0 \NR \NC 0 \NC 0 \NC 0 \NC d \NR \stoppmatrix \stopitemize \stoptext ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________