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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.