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Expand Up @@ -464,12 +464,11 @@ The Packer
.. index:: single: packing (widgets)

The packer is one of Tk's geometry-management mechanisms. Geometry managers
are used to specify the relative positioning of the positioning of widgets
within their container - their mutual *master*. In contrast to the more
cumbersome *placer* (which is used less commonly, and we do not cover here), the
packer takes qualitative relationship specification - *above*, *to the left of*,
*filling*, etc - and works everything out to determine the exact placement
coordinates for you.
are used to specify the relative positioning of widgets within their container -
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For the future: the source .rst files are not required to have their lines nicely filled out before being wrapped. You could have merely removed the extra from one line and left the rest alone. I then would have been required to check only the one line.

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Thank you for pointing that out @terryjreedy. I appreciate your guidance and will remember that for next time!

their mutual *master*. In contrast to the more cumbersome *placer* (which is
used less commonly, and we do not cover here), the packer takes qualitative
relationship specification - *above*, *to the left of*, *filling*, etc - and
works everything out to determine the exact placement coordinates for you.

The size of any *master* widget is determined by the size of the "slave widgets"
inside. The packer is used to control where slave widgets appear inside the
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