Where can I get a copy of the TCL/TK QuickRef Guide

John Horrocks

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Jan 30, 2006, 6:22:22 AM1/30/06

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I am a novice to tcl and Looking for documentation, in particular a Quick
Referance guide, can anyone help?

appreciated
John

William J Giddings

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Jan 30, 2006, 7:15:55 AM1/30/06

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Try these:

http://media.wiley.com/assets/264/08/0764544977_bonus_chA.pdf
http://media.wiley.com/assets/264/08/0764544977_bonus_chB.pdf

suchenwi

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Jan 30, 2006, 7:42:24 AM1/30/06

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Also, google for "tcl tk quick reference" brings up a number of
alternatives :^)

Larry W. Virden

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Jan 30, 2006, 8:17:03 AM1/30/06

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The last I checked, the quick reference guide was a bit out of date -
tcl/tk 8.4.3 - I've not heard of anyone updating it in the past couple
of years.

Donal K. Fellows

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Jan 30, 2006, 10:30:10 AM1/30/06

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There's not been a lot changed in 8.4 since then, and 8.5 isn't stable
enough for such a guide yet.

Donal.

John Horrocks

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Jan 31, 2006, 4:26:25 AM1/31/06

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Thanks
very much for your help, I did find a copy of the quick reference guide
@
http://tiger.la.asu.edu/quick_reference_card.htm

regards
John

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Larry W. Virden

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Jan 31, 2006, 6:51:08 AM1/31/06

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Note that the version you found was pretty old - it is 8.0.3 .

Larry W. Virden

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Jan 31, 2006, 6:51:54 AM1/31/06

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when I try the second of these two urls, I get a "not found" error msg.

Larry W. Virden

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Jan 31, 2006, 6:56:36 AM1/31/06

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There were a few small changes: in 8.4.7, there was TIP 202 for the >@
notation for exec and open. In 8.4.8 there was TIP 159 (wm iconphoto)
and 222 (wm attributes -alpha), and in 8.4.12 there was the package
ifneeded change. I don't know if any of the changes to the internal
packages, like http, dde, and so forth had any syntax changes.
And there might have been some man page changes that could reflect into
the quick ref.

I don't know if there is anything else that needs added (other than
enhancements by adding more extension info).

Anyone know how to take the .tex pages and turn them into a PDF?

Robert Hicks

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Jan 31, 2006, 8:12:44 AM1/31/06

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Maybe?

http://gnu.mirrors.ilisys.com.au/directory/tex2pdf.html

Neil Madden

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Jan 31, 2006, 10:32:06 AM1/31/06

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Larry W. Virden wrote:
> Anyone know how to take the .tex pages and turn them into a PDF?

"pdflatex" which comes with most distributions of TeX/LaTeX will do the
job. You may have to run it twice to get cross-references right. Just doing:

$ pdflatex 181.tex
... lots of output ...
$ pdflatex 181.tex
... same again ...
$ acroread 181.pdf &

works for me.

/me wonders if the TIP server doesn't have LaTeX installed?

-- Neil

Donal K. Fellows

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Jan 31, 2006, 5:09:19 PM1/31/06

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Neil Madden wrote:
> /me wonders if the TIP server doesn't have LaTeX installed?

When I was developing it, the webserver I was using was too slow to do
that (in addition, I don't remember if pdflatex was installed on that
machine, or indeed whether it is present on the production TIP server).
Also, pdflatex (like all other forms of TeX) is way too chatty; it
produces scads of output instead of just getting on with it and only
reporting errors.

But if someone wants to make it work, feel free. I'm happy to give
people developer access to the SF project hosting the code... :-)

Donal.

Ivan Young

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Feb 1, 2006, 4:59:36 AM2/1/06

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Larry W. Virden wrote:
> There were a few small changes: in 8.4.7, there was TIP 202 for the >@
> notation for exec and open. In 8.4.8 there was TIP 159 (wm iconphoto)
> and 222 (wm attributes -alpha), and in 8.4.12 there was the package
> ifneeded change. I don't know if any of the changes to the internal
> packages, like http, dde, and so forth had any syntax changes.
> And there might have been some man page changes that could reflect into
> the quick ref.

I edited a version locally to help move from 8.3 to 8.4 by adding markers
for 8.4 commands, but by the time I had finished it
Dave bodenstab's http://www.bodenstab.org/ was out and it includes useful
packages like tclx, its very good.
With an extra chapter for local extensions, to booklet is getting a bit fat,
maybe its time to split into two volumes, with one just for packages.

>
> I don't know if there is anything else that needs added (other than
> enhancements by adding more extension info).
>
> Anyone know how to take the .tex pages and turn them into a PDF?
>

If you have the .ps file "ps2pdf refguide.ps2" works fine.
From my notes I see, I had problem when dvips changed from version 5.86 to 5.92 which
messed-up booklet format. I have a filter to correct the .ps if thats
still a problem.
Also I like to "ps2pdf refbase.ps" to get a nice screen readable version
without the booklet formating.

Ivan...