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Fellows


    Jeff and Gerald render the canvas coordinate system more conventional:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his (mostly) weekly summary of Wiki action:
  On a day like this one can not really trust anything, so be warned.
  (If we fall victim of some April Fool's day joke, then your 
  chronicler is the first one to fall!)
  
  One picture says more ...
  - Since it is the first day of a new month, do have a look at
    Tcl3D's monthly demos: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17771>
  
  - Scripting the GIMP is made easy: no need to learn Lisp, 
    just plain Tcl will do: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11232>
  
  - Beautiful pictures as a result of visualising the ever-inspiring
    prime numbers: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23052> and <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23050>
  
  Two or more pictures ...
  - What if you have a pictures that does not comfortably fit on a single 
    sheet of paper, but you do need it in a PostScript file? Well,
    use multiple pages then: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23061>
  
  - Glade is one of the GUI builders available for Gtk. With this
    code it becomes easy to use it in gnocl: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23040>
  
  - Exotic fonts do not need to be installed on the system for you
    to use them in a Tk GUI. Here is how: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22262>
  
  Just words ...
  - Expect keeps amazing us all. When applied properly, it is 
    simply magic. A quick update: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3913>
  
  - To brace or not to brace, that is a question that has long been
    settled. Here are the arguments: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/642>
  
  - Backups, tedious stuff, but necessary stuff. Maybe this 
    will help: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23064>
  

Everything Tcl-related you want is probably one or two clicks away in these
pages:
    The "Welcome to comp.lang.tcl" message by Andreas Kupries
        http://www.purl.org/net/tcl-welcome
    comp.lang.tcl is a crucial resource for Tcl practitioners.
    An interesting perspective on its traffic appears at
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/about

    The Tcl Developer Site is Tcl's "home base".
	http://www.tcl.tk

    Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher.
        http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/

    The Tcl Developer Xchange is a highly organized resource center
    of documents and software with provisions for individuals to
    maintain references to their own software:
        http://www.tcl.tk/resource/
    The TDX sponsor, ActiveState, also keeps info to convince your
    boss Tcl is a good thing
        http://www.tcl.tk/scripting/

    The Tcl'ers Wiki is a huge, dynamic, collaboratively edited repository
    of documentation, examples, tutorials and pontifications on all things 
    Tcl.
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/0
    For the ideal overview of the topics about Tcl most likely to
    interest a newcomer, see "Arts and Crafts ..."
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/969
    There's also a high-quality Wikibook on Tcl:
        http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Tcl

    ActiveState maintains binaries distribution and development tools
        http://www.activestate.com/Tcl
    along with a Cookbook of Tcl recipes
        http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl

    "La Gazette du Técleux" is an important monthly publication.
	http://wfr.tcl.tk/1159

    deli.cio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary.
    It already aggregates quite a bit of Tcl intelligence.
        http://del.icio.us/tag/tcl

    Cameron Laird tracks several Tcl/Tk references of interest (but
    needs to validate many of the links).
        http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/

    Years ago, Cetus Links maintained a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html

    "Yahoo! Groups" archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts--even 
    though clta itself is dormant.
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/

We're working on more useful archives of past installments.  Dave 
Williams generously is building up
    http://www.bacomatic.org/~dw/comp/tclurl/index.htm
and of course Google gives us
  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL&...

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