I'm afraid it's difficult to offer more precise advice without seeing more of 
the code that's causing trouble.


> On Mar 23, 2017, at 4:29 PM, Paul Atlan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> ... as shown by the fact that I'm still struggling: 
> * I've defined the "maybe-date" outside of the ◊(define latex-source 
> ◊string-append{} loop. So that works. 
> * however, 
> ◊when/splice[maybe-date]{
>  \date{◊(pubdate->english maybe-date)}}
> gives me:
> string-append: contract violation
>   expected: string?
>   given: '(@ "\\date{" "Saturday, February 20th, 2016" "}")
>   argument position: 74th
>   other arguments...:... [165 total] ...
> 
> I guess instead of a string I'm outputting "something" (a quote?) that's a 
> concatenation o strings ...
> I thought I could convert this into a simple string by using symbol->string 
> but no joy. 
> I'm pretty sure I'm missing something obvious about lists and strings here, 
> but I can't figure out what ...

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