Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links

QOTW:  "[M]egawidgets are harder than they look; getting focus handling right
is usually the prime problem." - Donal K. Fellows


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki activity:
  As you may noted, it is now even simpler to create a new page on the Wiki:
  just press the link "Create new page". That said, here is the summary!
  
  Symbolism
  - Fed up with the verbosity of mathematical mark-up languages like 
    MathML? Here is an alternative - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25681>
  
  - Extract the documentation of your program from your source files.
    Just a bit of mark-up is required - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25378>
  
  - While most if not all western languages are written from left to
    right, that is just a conventional choice. Chinese can be written
    in several ways. From top to bottom for instance:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25658>
  
  More mark-up stuff
  - The never-ending story about parsing HTML and XML ... the 
    answer is simple: simple stuff can be done in a simple way.
    But not everything is simple. For the first category, do have
    a look at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14517>
  
  - From scalable vector graphics to the good old canvas and back:
    these Wiki pages lead the way: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2893>
    discusses SVG and <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25690> and
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4940> implement the link.
  
  More imaging
  - Wave forms - analyse and measure! Here is a nice tool to 
    do so: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25693>
  
  - Scale your image up or down, no problem with this piece of
    C code - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25685>
  
  Use it if you can
  - Running computations on a graphical processor unit has become 
    a popular pastime. It can actually be useful: 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25442> 
  
  - Block selection in the text widget? Yes! <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15471>
  
  - Connect or disconnect your network drives in a jiffy. A mere 
    Tcl script away as shown here: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15058>
    

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/

    Tcl Developer Xchange sponsor, ActiveState, 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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