[plt-scheme] Scribble Problem in PLT Scheme 4.1.5

I read all of the Scribble documentation early on and got rather confused at
the time. [I'm sure the documentation is much better now that when it was
first rolled out.] I relied on trial and error to get things to work.
Unfortunately, I got itemized lists working with braces and that's been my
design pattern - unfortunately, my design pattern is wrong. I am curious why
it broke though. My fear is that many of my packages no longer load.

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>wrote:

> If you want to understand why they work and why they don't work, I
> recommend the section on @ in the scribble manual.
>
> Robby
>
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Doug Williams
> <m.douglas.williams at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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> >
> >
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