Template:uxa
(please add the primary text of this usage example)
- The following documentation is located at Template:uxa/documentation. [edit]
- Useful links: subpage list • links • redirects • transclusions • errors (parser/module) • sandbox
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This is used to show usage examples (not quotations or collocations) following a definition line, where the format of the usage example (inline or multiline) is automatically determined by the size of the generated text. For collocations, use {{coa}}
. See WT:USEX for some general guidelines regarding usage examples.
The template call {{uxa|...}}
works identically to {{ux|....|inline=auto}}
. See {{ux}}
and {{uxi}}
for parameters and examples.
See also
- WT:USEX
{{ux}}
– used for longer usage examples; always formatted multiline{{uxi}}
– used for shorter usage examples; always formatted inline (single-line){{quote}}
– used for quotations{{co}}
,{{coi}}
,{{coa}}
– used for collocations; analogous, respectively, to{{ux}}
,{{uxi}}
and{{uxa}}
.
TemplateData
TemplateData for uxa
This is used to show inline usage examples (not quotations) following a definition line.
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
---|---|---|---|---|
language code | 1 | The language code of the example to be shown
| String | required |
example | 2 | The example to be shown. Use '''bold''' to highlight the current term.
| String | required |
translation | 3 t translation | The English translation for examples on foreign entries. Use '''bold''' to highlight the current term's translation.
| String | optional |
transliteration | tr | The Latin transliteration for examples in non-Latin script. | String | optional |
script code | sc | The script code, required for certain languages with multiple possible scripts.
| String | optional |
qualifier | q | To qualify an example with a region or register, or a type of usage.
| String | optional |
reference | ref | To include a reference or link to an originating external site. | URL | optional |
literal translation | lit | A literal translation of an idiomatic expression in a foreign language.
| String | optional |
substitution | subst | Substitutions to be applied to handle irregular transliterations in certain languages (e.g. Russian and Yiddish; see example above). If specified, should be one or more substitution expressions, where each substitution expression is of the form FROM//TO (FROM/TO is also accepted), where FROM is a Lua pattern and TO is the corresponding replacement expression. The substitutions are applied in order and before transliteration; hence both FROM and TO should be in the source script (e.g. Cyrillic or Hebrew).
| String | optional |
noenum | noenum | To use in unnumbered sections (not following a definition). It may start the line following the definition or may be prefixed by "<code>#:</code>" for visual aesthetics.
| Boolean | optional |