The (link:) macro needs 1 more value error

maziz

Hello, first question here
I have been following what this guy

has been doing in this video, but wherever I have

(link: "Text" [ (goto: $previousRoom)])

it is substituted with the following error:

The (link:) macro needs 1 more value

It is worth mentioning that I have created

$previousRoom

and I have done exactly what the dude in the video did, yet for some reason I get this error. I have searched far and wide for anything helpful here on the internet, but unfortunately I have come to the conclusion that the official documentation for Twine is incomplete (the Wikia at least).
Any help with what might be causing this error, or a link to a list of the error messages and some info about them would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Sharpe

This:

(link: "Text" [ (goto: $previousRoom)])

Needs to be:

(link: "Text")[(goto: $previousRoom)]

maziz

Sharpe wrote: »

This:

(link: "Text" [ (goto: $previousRoom)])

Needs to be:

(link: "Text")[(goto: $previousRoom)]

I changed all instances of (link:) to what you said, but I still get the same error.

greyelf

Make sure you have not missed out on any open/close parentheses and square brackets.

A basic (link:) macro is:

(link: "Link Text")[What you want to happen when the link is clicked]

A basic (goto:) link is:

(goto: "Title of Passage to go to")

eg.
(goto: $previousRoom)

So when you replace the "What you want to happen when the link is clicked" part of the (link:) macro with a (goto:) macro it would look like the following:

(link: "Link Text")[(goto: "Title of Passage to go to")]

eg.
(link: "Link Text")[(goto: $previousRoom)]

The above reformatted to make it easier to see the exact number of open/close parentheses and square brackets.

(link: "Link Text")[
	(goto: "Title of Passage to go to")
]

eg.
(link: "Link Text")[
	(goto: $previousRoom)
]