Breaking a list into multiple columns in Latex

Question

Hopefully this is simple: I have a relatively long list where each list item contains very little text. For example:

* a
* b
* c
* d
* e
* f

I wish to form

Answer 1

I've had multenum for "Multi-column enumerated lists" recommended to me, but I've never actually used it myself, yet.

Edit: The syntax doesn't exactly look like you could easily copy+paste lists into the LaTeX code. So, it may not be the best solution for your use case!