[OS X TeX] Excalibur

[Herbert Schulz]

On Nov 14, 2013, at 9:42 AM, George Gratzer <gratzer at me.com> wrote:

> The problem it complain about is
> 
> \setlength\itemindent{30pt}
> 
> a very unusual construct. Rick probably has never heard of this.
> 
> I am cc-ing this to him.
> 
> Rick,
> 
> Excalibur chokes on
> 
> {\setlength\itemindent{30pt}
> \item[($\mathrm{CLOS}(A)$)] $A$ has all small directed colimits. This is trivial.}
> 
> which, I think, is legit.
> 
> GG
> 
> 
> On Nov 14, 2013, at 10:32 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Nov 14, 2013, at 9:18 AM, George Gratzer <gratzer at me.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> It stops scanning at that point and informs me of the line number. Cannot parse LaTeX.
>>> 
>>> On Nov 14, 2013, at 10:11 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Nov 14, 2013, at 8:40 AM, George Gratzer <gratzer at me.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Chokes on
>>>>> 
>>>>> {\setlength\itemindent{30pt}
>>>>> \item[($\mathrm{CLOS}(A)$)] $A$ has all small directed colimits. This is trivial.}
>>>>> 
>>>>> Isn't this legit?
>>>>> 
>>>>> GG
>>>> 
>>>> Howdy,
>>>> 
>>>> Where does Excalibur complain?
>>>> 
>>>> Good Luck,
>>>> 
>>>> Herb Schulz
>>>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>> 
>> Howdy,
>> 
>> Does Excalibur `know' about the \item command taking an optional argument? I use CocoAspell and it doesn't even have \item in its command list; probably because it's ``spelled correctly''.
>> 
>> Good Luck,
>> 
>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)

Howdy,

Try

\setlength{\itemindent}{30pt}

maybe it wants both arguments of \setlength in braces.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)