TextMesh Pro Why does my sprite tag print literally?

I'm reading about how to use sprites in textmesh pro. I've read this documentation: http://digitalnativestudios.com/textmeshpro/docs/sprites/ & http://digitalnativestudios.com/textmeshpro/docs/rich-text/#sprite

I set text to this:

Cost $3 and 1 <sprite name="Catnip">

But it looks like this:


I'm not sure what I've done wrong.

Here's my sprite atlas:


And it's placed here:



I use one prefab for all the text in the game, and its inspector looks like this:



I feel like there might be some place where I'm supposed to tell the text which sprite atlas to use, but I haven't found a setting like that. Well, I found one in Debug Settings, but that only let me select sprites, not an atlas, and it messed everything up when I picked it.

Can anyone tell me what I did wrong? I tried my best to follow the directions as closely as I could.

Update: I tried setting the text to

Cost $3 and 1 <sprite="skillpoints" name="Catnip">

, but it still didn't render the sprite.

 

I figured it out. The documentation is out of date. The TMP settings http://digitalnativestudios.com/textmeshpro/docs/settings/#sprites are set to different directories than the documentation says and for that reason, it could not find the sprite atlas.

 

I've just followed those instructions in 2021 and they still work with TMP 3.0.3

 

This helped us as well (Unity 2022.3.0, latest TMP package). While the documentation at https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.textmeshpro@3.2/manual/Sprites.html (or any other version's documentation available at the time of writing) mentions using `Resources/Sprites` for the default sprite locations for rich-text tags (and was what we had in our project originally), `Resources/Sprite Assets` is the path that fixed it for us. It's either an undocumented change or a bug, but resolves the issue.