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diff --git a/Doc/library/tkinter.rst b/Doc/library/tkinter.rst index 2dc44ad..3d90b4b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/tkinter.rst +++ b/Doc/library/tkinter.rst @@ -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 - +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 |