General ⇒ ProcessList, SplitList and Xparse

[mhayes]

Currently, I'm attempting to use processlist and splitlist. However, it doesn't seem to recognize these, so to find out if I was inputting it correctly, I was using some sample code that was posted on these forums that supposedly worked:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xparse}
\NewDocumentCommand\mylist{>{\SplitList{;}}m}
  {
    \begin{itemize}
      \ProcessList {#1} { \insertitem}
    \end{itemize}
  }
\newcommand\insertitem[1]{\item #1}

\begin{document}
Short list:
\mylist{a;b}

Longer list:
\mylist{a;b;c;d}

List within a list:
\mylist{a;b\mylist{A;B;C;D};c;d}
\end{document}

However, instead of a bulleted list, what I get instead is something similar to this:
Short list:
ab

Longer list:
abcd

and so on. I'm using TeXLive 2011, so it shouldn't be an issue of it being out of date. Is there a reason that this isn't being parsed correctly?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

I'm using TeX Live 2011 too, but I updated from time to time. And I get bulleted lists with this code. So I recommend to consider updating.

Stefan

[mhayes]

Ah, thanks for suggesting an update. I recently downloaded 2011 so I figured that it would be current, but updating solved my issue!