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 [1]: http://www.tclcommunityassociation.org/wub/proceedings/Proceedings-2010/GeorgePetasis/TileQtAndTileGTK.pdf
 
 [2]: http://www.ellogon.org/petasis/tcltk-projects/tilegtk
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