<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 9.00.8112.16457"></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=739570617-31012013><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">Inspired by </FONT><A title=blocked::http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Racket href="http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Racket"><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Racket</FONT></A><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> and now that DrRacket shows the 'Scribble HTML' button, I do my first serious attempt to scribble. With this button I can easily see what I get. I use it very frequently. Marvelous! I use scribble/manual. But of course, even after long searches in the docs (I am a bad scribbler and a bad browser), I have some questions.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"><SPAN class=739570617-31012013></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"><SPAN class=739570617-31012013>Q1</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"><SPAN class=739570617-31012013>@racket[(string-length ((fmt "I") #e1e100000))]</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"><SPAN class=739570617-31012013>is expanded to</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"><SPAN class=739570617-31012013>(string-length ((fmt "I") 1000....000))</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"><SPAN class=739570617-31012013>with 100000 zeros. How can I make scribble render #e1e100000 as #e1e100000?</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"><SPAN class=739570617-31012013></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"><SPAN class=739570617-31012013>Q2</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"><SPAN class=739570617-31012013>I use verbatim to escape interpretation, but this function always produces a separate line. Is there something like verbatim that I can use within a paragraph? For example to include character @ and unbalanced parentheses and brackets in plain text.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"><SPAN class=739570617-31012013></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=739570617-31012013><SPAN class=RktPn><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">Q3</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=739570617-31012013><SPAN class=RktPn><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">I try</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=739570617-31012013><SPAN class=RktPn><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">@tabular[#:sep @hspace[3] #:style 'top (list (list ....]</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=739570617-31012013><SPAN class=RktPn><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">in an attempt to have each element justified at top, but this does no show any effect. How can I outline like in:</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=739570617-31012013><SPAN class=RktPn><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=739570617-31012013><SPAN class=RktPn><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">item1   this is item-1</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=739570617-31012013><SPAN class=RktPn><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">        Not important.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=739570617-31012013><SPAN class=RktPn><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=739570617-31012013><SPAN class=RktPn><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">item2   this is item-2</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=739570617-31012013><SPAN class=RktPn><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">        not important either.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=739570617-31012013><SPAN class=RktPn><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=739570617-31012013><SPAN class=RktPn><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">item3   end</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=739570617-31012013><SPAN class=RktPn><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">        of this</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=739570617-31012013><SPAN class=RktPn><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">        question.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=739570617-31012013><SPAN class=RktPn><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"><SPAN class=739570617-31012013>Thanks for the marvelous Scribble!</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"><SPAN class=739570617-31012013>Jos</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>