https://charlesreid1.com/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Template%3ATlx%2Fdoc 2026-06-19T03:48:50Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.39.12 https://charlesreid1.com/w/index.php?title=Template:Tlx/doc&diff=892&oldid=prev 2010-11-03T23:03:24Z

<p>Created page with &quot;== Purpose and naming == <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mnemonic" class="extiw" title="wikt:mnemonic">Mnemonically</a> &#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;T&#039;&#039;&#039;emplate &#039;&#039;&#039;l&#039;&#039;&#039;ink e&#039;&#039;&#039;x&#039;&#039;&#039;panded&#039;. After &lt;tt&gt;{{tlx|Tl}}&lt;/tt&gt; &#039;&#039;&#039;T&#039;&#039;&#039;emplate &#039;&#039;&#039;l&#039;&#039;&#039;ink&#039;. * This template takes a...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>== Purpose and naming ==<br /> [[Wikt:mnemonic|Mnemonically]] &#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;T&#039;&#039;&#039;emplate &#039;&#039;&#039;l&#039;&#039;&#039;ink e&#039;&#039;&#039;x&#039;&#039;&#039;panded&#039;. After &lt;tt&gt;{{tlx|Tl}}&lt;/tt&gt; &#039;&#039;&#039;T&#039;&#039;&#039;emplate &#039;&#039;&#039;l&#039;&#039;&#039;ink&#039;.<br /> <br /> * This template takes another &#039;&#039;template-name&#039;&#039; and some associated [[Help:Pipe trick|pipe-tricked]] [[m:Parameter#Parameters|(numbered) parameters]] (or &#039;pass parameters&#039;), and displays them as an &#039;example demonstration&#039; of how the &#039;&#039;template-name&#039;&#039; template could be coded, literally. Its primary use is in instruction and documentation.<br /> * &#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;Specifics:&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039; Up to 11 pass parameters (numbered or nowiki-keywords) for the specified template are displayed as &#039;placeholders&#039;, and over 11 parameters can be displayed using a coded vertical-bar (as in &quot;&lt;small&gt;&amp;amp;#124;&lt;/small&gt;&#039;&#039;...&#039;&#039;&quot;). A keyword parameter can be used with equals code &amp;amp;#61; or &lt;nowiki&gt;{{=}}&lt;/nowiki&gt; or in nowiki-text: &quot;&amp;lt;nowiki&gt;size=10&amp;lt;/nowiki&gt;&quot; or all parameters as a string in &lt;nowiki&gt;&quot;&lt;nowiki&gt;&quot;&lt;/nowiki&gt; tags; see &#039;&#039;[[#Examples|Examples]]&#039;&#039; at bottom. For more details, see [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|this talk]] page.<br /> * &#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;Exceptions:&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039; If the intended template lists numerous/keyword parameters, then perhaps this template should really &#039;&#039;not&#039;&#039; be used, and just hardcode the usage with &lt;code&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;nowiki&amp;gt;&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/code&gt;, for example: &lt;code&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;nowiki&amp;gt;{{Anytemplate|arg1=23|size=250px|&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;var&gt;other parameters...&lt;/var&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;}}&amp;lt;/nowiki&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/code&gt;. If a vertical display, with parameters on their own lines, is desired, this can also be laid out manually in this manner, or more rapidly done with &lt;code&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;&lt;pre&gt;...&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/code&gt;.<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> * If given no additional parameters except &#039;&#039;&lt;code&gt;&amp;nbsp;&#039;template&amp;nbsp;name&#039;&amp;nbsp;(&lt;nowiki&gt;{{{1}}}&lt;/nowiki&gt;), &lt;/code&gt;&#039;&#039;&amp;nbsp;it presents the same as the similar {{tl|Tl}} [[macro]] template -- a blue link nested in [[brackets|curly-braces]]-- the same as a user would apply the template without parameters, but with a noticably clearer font and spacing on most modern browsers. <br /> <br /> :* {{Tlx|Tl|Tl}} display compared to {{Tlx|Tlx|Tl}}: (Tl: {{Tl|Tl}} versus Tlx: {{Tlx|Tl}}) <br /> <br /> * Comparatively, {{Tlx|Tl}} will not take or display additional parameters, and for minor technical reasons, may be preferred for mere listing and referencing in long pages involving a lot of template expansions.<br /> <br /> * {{tlx|Tlx}} has a named parameter &#039;&#039;subst&#039;&#039;. Setting this parameter to any string of length 1 or greater will place the string &quot;subst:&quot; before the template name, linked to [[Help:Substitution]]. This is useful to indicate when a template should be substituted. For example {{tlx|Tlx|Welcome|&lt;nowiki&gt;subst=Y&lt;/nowiki&gt;}} will display {{Tlx|Welcome|subst=Y}}.<br /> <br /> * Additionally, Tlx will take a &#039;named&#039; parameter &#039;SISTER&#039; to link interwiki to other sister projects such as one of these examples: &#039;|SISTER=W:&#039;, &#039;Tlx|SISTER=M:&#039;, &#039;Tlx|SISTER=Q:&#039;, &#039;Tlx|SISTER=S:&#039;, allowing documentation or discourse about a template across interwiki boundaries. Small &#039;front end&#039; Shell or convience templates {{Tlx|Tlxw}} and {{tlx|Tlxm}} are typing-aid templates available at Meta for automatic substitution in discussions about templates on Wikipedia or Meta.</div>

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