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I've been trying to create a custom environment for writing up my journal in LaTeX, but can't seem to get xparse to work right. When I use the code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xparse}

\DeclareDocumentEnvironment{entry}{m m}{#1}{#2}

\begin{document}
\begin{entry}{foo}{bar}
Test phrase
\end{entry}
\end{document}

all I get is:

foo Test phrase

without the bar! Is there something I'm missing here, or is this a bug?

EDIT: Just tried it on my other machine and it compiles fine with xparse 2012/11/12 v4332. I guess it's an out date xparse on my other machine. Thanks!

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This works as intended on my system producing: foo Test phrase bar – Scott H. Dec 9 '12 at 2:48
Does that exact code fail on your system? – Scott H. Dec 9 '12 at 4:19
Welcome to TeX.SE. I also get the correct results of foo Test phrase bar using TeXLive 2010, 2011 and the an updated 2012. Are you perhaps on an older release? You can add \listfiles before \begin{document} to see the versions of the pacakges included. My xparse version is 2012/09/29 v4249. – Peter Grill Dec 9 '12 at 7:31
@user23103: It seems that you are the same user who posted the original question. Please confirm so that the accounts can be merged. – Peter Grill Dec 9 '12 at 8:11
There was a bug in some releases in this regard, but it is fixed as noted in the edit. I've therefore closed as too localized (in time). – Joseph Wright♦ Dec 9 '12 at 8:38

closed as too localized by Werner, Joseph Wright♦ Dec 9 '12 at 8:37

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