General ⇒ Missing } inserted / Nesting commands

[ecastro]

Hi,

I'm trying to create some checklists with Latex using a template that I've found here: https://github.com/mavcunha/checklists/ ... eamble.inc

I want to do some special things, such as getting some items in the checklist to have a colored background. So I tried to do something like:

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\begin{checklist}{Cockpit}
    \colorbox{blue!10}{
      \item{Gear switch}              {VERIFY DOWN}
      \item{Magneto/Starter}          {VERIFY OFF}
      \item{Avionics Switch}          {VERIFY OFF}
      \item{Master Switch}            {SET ON}
      \item{Fuel gauges, quantity}    {CHECK}
    }
    \item{Pitot heat}               {SET ON}
    \item{Interior/Exterior lights} {SET ON}
    \item{Interior lights}          {CHECK}
    \item{Exterior lights}          {CHECK}
  \end{checklist}

But I'm getting the Missing } inserted.

I have already invested some hours and I cannot fully understand the issue, let alone how to fix it!

Any help?!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the forum!

You cannot have \item inside a \colorbox. If you take the box out, it works:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor,booktabs}
\newenvironment{checklist}[1]{%
  \renewcommand{\item}[2]{%
    ##1\hspace{2em}\dotfill\makebox{\uppercase{##2}}\\
  }
  \newcommand{\step}[1]{%
    \hspace*{10em}-\hspace*{\labelsep}##1\\
  }
  \begin{tabular}{p{0.8\linewidth}}
     \toprule
       \multicolumn{1}{c}{\textbf{\uppercase{#1}}}\\
     \midrule
}{\bottomrule\end{tabular}\vspace{1em}}
\begin{document}
\begin{checklist}{Cockpit}
%    \colorbox{blue!10}{
      \item{Gear switch}              {VERIFY DOWN}
      \item{Magneto/Starter}          {VERIFY OFF}
      \item{Avionics Switch}          {VERIFY OFF}
      \item{Master Switch}            {SET ON}
      \item{Fuel gauges, quantity}    {CHECK}
%    }
    \item{Pitot heat}               {SET ON}
    \item{Interior/Exterior lights} {SET ON}
    \item{Interior lights}          {CHECK}
    \item{Exterior lights}          {CHECK}
  \end{checklist}
\end{document}

Perhaps use color within \item.

Stefan

[ecastro]

Thanks Stefan for the quick reply. Maybe I should have stated the end result that I'm looking for rather than the issue I'm having.

So I want to achieve something like this:

2023-04-21 10_53_26-Missing } inserted _ Nesting commands — Mozilla Firefox.png (26.31 KiB) Viewed 1715 times

I tried doing it inside item command but was not able to achieve this result, then I tried doing it outside and I get this error.

Could you point me in the right direction on how to achieve something like this?

[Bartman]

You could use the commands of the colortbl package to color the table rows. The xcolor package manual tells you how to load it.

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\documentclass[
%  10pt,% standard setting of the class
  twocolumn
]{article}

\usepackage{booktabs}% def toprule, midrule and etc.
\usepackage[landscape]{geometry}
\usepackage[cm]{fullpage}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}% added to color the table rows
\usepackage{tikz}% loads xcolor
\usepackage{environ}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{amssymb}

\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead{}
\fancyfoot{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}

% creates empty checkboxes to be used as the second
% argument to \item on checklist
\newcommand{\checkbox}{\makebox[3ex][r]{\Large{$\square$}}}

% draws a dashed box around to group checklists
% a task has a title, which is the group title
\NewEnviron{task}[1]{\par
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node[rectangle,minimum width=0.9\linewidth] (m)
  {\begin{minipage}{0.85\linewidth}
    \begin{center}\uppercase{#1}\\\vspace{1em}\BODY\end{center}
   \end{minipage}};
\draw[dashed](m.south west) rectangle (m.north east);
\end{tikzpicture}\vspace{1em}
}

% checklist env sets up a table and format the items.
% in case a item has steps use the \step{asdf}
% command.
\newenvironment{checklist}[1]{%
  \renewcommand{\item}[2]{    
    ##1\hspace{2em}\dotfill\makebox{\uppercase{##2}}\\
  }
  \newcommand{\step}[1]{%
    \hspace*{10em}-\hspace*{\labelsep}##1\\
  }
  \begin{tabular}{p{0.8\linewidth}}
     \toprule
       \multicolumn{1}{c}{\textbf{\uppercase{#1}}}\\
     \midrule
}{\bottomrule\end{tabular}\vspace{1em}}

\begin{document}
{\rowcolors{2}{gray!20}{gray!20}
\begin{checklist}{Cockpit}
\item{Gear switch} {VERIFY DOWN}
\item{Magneto/Starter} {VERIFY OFF}
\item{Avionics Switch} {VERIFY OFF}
\item{Master Switch} {SET ON}
\item{Fuel gauges, quantity} {CHECK}
\hiderowcolors
\item{Pitot heat} {SET ON}
\item{Interior/Exterior lights} {SET ON}
\item{Interior lights} {CHECK}
\item{Exterior lights} {CHECK}
\end{checklist}}
\end{document}

[ecastro]

Awesome, thank you!