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IWTG-V:
- Rev: P3-0
- 2007-02-01.0
- Changes
- Convert to parameter calls And use just a single template
- subst calls
| Similar templates at English sister projects [edit] | |||
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mta | Meta-wiki | [[M:Template:S
|S]] |
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wpd | Wikipedia | [[w:Template:S
|S]] |
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cms | Commons | [[commons:Template: S
| S]] |
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wbk | Wikibooks | [[b:Template: S
|S]] |
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wsp | Wikispecies | [[wikispecies:Template:S
|S]] |
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wvy | Wikiversity | [[v:Template:S
|S]] |
Purpose/Usage
This is a short-form 'alias' for the template {{space}}, which it calls, if necessary, with the default of '3', but will also accept a numeric argument and pass same onto space.
- 'space' is extremely useful to align things like 'monthname year' lists inside a table, but shoves the table innards around creating wrapped edit lines and disorganizing the columnar nature of such a flat table columnized list.
- 's', by defaulting to '3' ('NN') spaces thus takes up far less width and leaves the editor less confused by replacing either 'NN' ' ' and/or ' ' HTML codes or the 'space' template width itself allowing one to finesse things like lining up the years between a column of dates or other unequal length text fields, and other such naturally misaligning tabular data.
- for example
{{space|5}}<u>Heading one{{space|18}}Heading two:{{space|4}}</u>{{indent|5}}November 2005 <----------->{{space|5}}November 2005{{indent|5}}May 2006{{space|5}} <----------->{{space|6}}May{{space|7}}2006...
(all a one line entry, or can be spaced out some) gives:
(all a one line entry, or can be spaced out some) gives:
Heading one Heading two:
November 2005 <-----------> November 2005
May 2006 <-----------> May 2006
- Note MSIE technical limitations do not show the above columns properly aligned as do more advanced browsers.
See also
See also {{space}} & {{indent}} and its shortform {{I}}. All do not give an absolutely calculable display due to the working of wiki system display software, which abhors double whitespace and whitespace clarity, but are effective work-arounds once a text line length is established... which seem to be parsed for display back to front by wiki system software.