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From: Larry McVoy <l...@bitmover.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 11:27:37 -0800
Local: Thurs, Mar 8 2012 2:27 pm
Subject: Re: [TCLCORE] nroff (was Re: gsoc ideas)
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> However, the one real limitation I found is
> that it can't handle screenshots.  This makes Tk docs much less
> friendly.  In the same manner that adding examples to the Tcl docs was a
> real boon for the user, we've never been able to pictorialize for Tk.

> I'd be up for switching to a doc format that could manage that well.
> Maybe the rest format would satisfy?

groff can handle screenshots just fine but people seem to have a tough time
with that.

What about pod?  I whipped up a somewhat pod compat tool in L (which runs
on tcl) that produces stuff like this:

http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/L/l.html

input was this:

http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/L/l.pod
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