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. <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Robby Findler <<a href="mailto:robby@eecs.northwestern.edu">robby@eecs.northwestern.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 <div><div></div><div class="h5"><<a href="mailto:m.douglas.williams@gmail.com">m.douglas.williams@gmail.com</a>> 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 <<a href="mailto:robby@eecs.northwestern.edu">robby@eecs.northwestern.edu</a>> > 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 >> <<a href="mailto:m.douglas.williams@gmail.com">m.douglas.williams@gmail.com</a>> 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]---@scheme[item] is inserted at the end of >> > @scheme[set]. The @scheme[priority], if provided, is ignored.} >> > @item{@scheme[#:lifo]---@scheme[item] is inserted at the beginning of >> > @scheme[set]. The @scheme[priority], if provided, is ignored.} >> > @item{@scheme[#:priority]---@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]---@scheme[item] is inserted at the end of >> > @scheme[set]. The @scheme[priority], if provided, is ignored.} >> > @item{@scheme[#:lifo]---@scheme[item] is inserted at the beginning of >> > @scheme[set]. The @scheme[priority], if provided, is ignored.} >> > @item{@scheme[#:priority]---@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 >> > >> > _________________________________________________ >> > For list-related administrative tasks: >> > <a href="http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme" target="_blank">http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme</a> >> > >> > > > </div></div></blockquote></div>