The main issue was indeed with your indents as @[email protected] pointed out. They need to be consistent throughout your code, so you can use either a tab per nested indent or a double space. So, for example:

layout
  debug = borders
  grid
    a a a a
    b b c c
    d d d d

This is consistent because you have used space space for each indent. The issue has occurred because on one line you’ve used space space, on another you’ve used tab tab. I fixed that throughout the code and have used space space, but it was inconsistent throughout.

There was one more issue on line 12 where you added curly braces around the pattern^2 variable which confused the script: else {"{[pattern^2]} [gender] {with low white spotting|with medium white spotting|with high white spotting}"} Simply removing those fixed that last problem: else {"[pattern^2] [gender] {with low white spotting|with medium white spotting|with high white spotting}"}

It now looks like your code works as was expected?

https://perchance.org/6jcw0cjai2#edit

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