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Re: nested formatting commands fails?
> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 91 19:01 EST
> From: barmar@Think.COM (Barry Margolin)
>
> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 91 17:23 EST
> From: pc@ctt.ctt.bellcore.com (Peter Clitherow)
>
> I'm having trouble doing something fairly trivial, yet it mysteriously
> fails. I want to format a list inside a filling-output enviroment. The
> Docex said somewhat cryptically that "Most simple combinations of
> formatted output macros work inside of one another". Yet when i try:
>
> Unfortunately, I think INDENTING-OUTPUT has trouble working with lots of
> streams.
You might want to try sys:with-indentation, the other leading brand of macro
that does the same thing. I haven't tested it in this circumstance.