Hi Bob,
I remember experiencing the same difficulties as you've had, when I first started using the
<$appear> plugin. I created my own copy of the documentation for it
here, and you're welcome to make use of it. I have a used a macro and stylesheet to generate those fake code boxes, and it requires that I escape the quotation marks / speechmarks. If you intend to make use of my examples, make sure to replace the curly quotes with straight quotes first. A simple find / replace would do it.
Hope this helps,
Hegart.