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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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