[plt-scheme] Scribble Problem in PLT Scheme 4.1.5

Matthias pointed that out to me. Unfortunately, braces generally work, too.
In fact, that exact one worked until recently.  I'll go back and recode them
all at some point.

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>wrote:

> You want square brackets in the itemize, not {} ones. Itemize expects
> item arguments only, but with the {} you get spaces and newlines and
> things like that as well.
>
> Robby
>
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Doug Williams
> <m.douglas.williams at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I had the following in the Scribble documentation for the simulation
> > collection.
> >
> > @defproc[(set-insert! (set set?) (item any/c) (priority real? 100)) any]{
> > Create a cell containing @scheme[item] and inserts it into @scheme[set]
> with
> > the given @scheme[priority] according to the type of the set.
> >
> > @itemize{
> >   @item{@scheme[#:fifo]--- at scheme[item] is inserted at the end of
> > @scheme[set].  The @scheme[priority], if provided, is ignored.}
> >   @item{@scheme[#:lifo]--- at scheme[item] is inserted at the beginning of
> > @scheme[set].  The @scheme[priority], if provided, is ignored.}
> >   @item{@scheme[#:priority]--- at scheme[item] is inserted into
> @scheme[set]
> > according to the @scheme[priority].  If @scheme[priority] is not
> provided,
> > the default value of @math{100} is used.}
> >   }}
> >
> > That worked fine at the time version 3.3 of the simulation collection was
> > built. [That was Nov. 27, 2008 according to the SVN log, but I'm not sure
> > what version of PLT Scheme I had loaded at that time.] Now it gives a
> syntax
> > error and points to the first item in the itemized list. Removing that
> one
> > just moves the error the the second item.
> >
> > Moving the itemized list outside of the body of the defproc block removes
> > the error. The closing brace (curly bracket) was moved from the end of
> the
> > itemized list up before the itemized list.
> >
> > @defproc[(set-insert! (set set?) (item any/c) (priority real? 100)) any]{
> > Create a cell containing @scheme[item] and inserts it into @scheme[set]
> with
> > the given @scheme[priority] according to the type of the set.}
> >
> > @itemize{
> >   @item{@scheme[#:fifo]--- at scheme[item] is inserted at the end of
> > @scheme[set].  The @scheme[priority], if provided, is ignored.}
> >   @item{@scheme[#:lifo]--- at scheme[item] is inserted at the beginning of
> > @scheme[set].  The @scheme[priority], if provided, is ignored.}
> >   @item{@scheme[#:priority]--- at scheme[item] is inserted into
> @scheme[set]
> > according to the @scheme[priority].  If @scheme[priority] is not
> provided,
> > the default value of @math{100} is used.}
> >   }
> >
> > Does anyone know what the problem is?
> >
> > The real problem is that building the Scribble documents failed when the
> > simulation collection was downloaded from PLaneT using PLT Scheme 4.1.5.
> > I've updated the PLaneT package so it loads now, but wonder if any other
> > packages have a similar problem.
> >
> > Doug
> >
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