This should be possible to fix, and its one of the goals with the pd-devel effort. Now that the GUI side is pure Tcl, that should make the quoting issue easier to address.
.hc
What do you think about some pd.tk explainings and hacksessions at Pdcon hackmeeting?
glerm
PS: Hackmeeting wiki is down, sorry, we are trying to fix the problem. I will put the comments of this message there ASAP.