User:Dick Bos/Templates

A list of templates I often use, and some other editing helps.

Editing in the Page namespace[edit]

Editing templates[edit]

Large initial and

Drop initial

Bar: short line in text. {{bar}} makes ——————; {{bar|2}} makes ——; {{bar|1}} makes — (=mdash);

there's nothing between {{bar|1}} and {{bar|2}}; so {{bar|1.5}} = {{bar|2}}

Rule: inserts a horizontal rule: {{rule|10em}} makes:

Graphic rule: makes

(with optional parameters)

also {{custom rule|sp|40|co|6|sp|40}} gives:

Frame: a frame around text.
block center: text in the middle, left aligned.
c: center
clear: adds html clear:both
dhr: double height row: two textrows between paragraphs (or more with parms)
ditto: for aligning text in tables etc. with quotation marks. See e.g. this page
DJVU page link
frac: making fractions with 1,2 or 3 parameters! {{frac|a|b|c}} makes a+^b⁄_c; * and sfrac: a (vertical) fraction, like 5/6.
gap: to create some space
hi -> Hanging indent
hidden text -> for aligning e.g. this (contents) page
hws: hyphenated word start - syntax: {{hws|differ|differences}} For hws and hwe combined with italics, see: doc on Template (below)
hwe: hyphenated word end - syntax: {{hwe|ences|differences}}
left: for aligning left (with a <div>!), like:

{{left|Dit staat links {{lorem ipsum}}}} gives:

Dit staat links Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

en {{left|Dit staat links {{lorem ipsum}}|offset=10em}} gives:

Dit staat links Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

Loop: for repeating a string
nop: end of paragraph
nowrap: to avoid wrapping
rh: RunningHeader - syntax: {{RH|left|center|right}} See also: Template:rvh for easy use on recto-verso pages

separator - syntax: {{separator|7}} - means: 7 dots

SIC - mind the capitals! example: {{SIC|taping mistake|typing mistake}} gives: taping mistake. Another example: The Voyage Out (my predecessor used "sic" and the word disappeared completely!)
Help about sidenotes, with links to different templates

sc, also Template:Small-caps
sp, more generally: Template:Letter-spacing

smallrefs; with optional font size!

underline - e.g. in: Page:William_Petty_-_Economic_Writings_(1899)_vol_1.djvu/205 (footnote 1), overline - e.g. in: Page:William_Petty_-_Economic_Writings_(1899)_vol_1.djvu/240 (footnote 1) and strikethrough - e.g. in: Page:William_Petty_-_Economic_Writings_(1899)_vol_1.djvu/239 (footnote 5).
ts: table style - syntax for instance: {{ts|ac|sm}} (in format modifier-section) - means: cell gets centered and small txt (help on tables: mediawiki help-page)

Dotted TOC page listing (TOC=Table Of Contents); example: The Economic Journal Vol.1. And see Category:TOC templates

linkable phrase start and linkable phrase end for a link on two pages; compare e.g. Page:The_Economic_Journal_Volume_1.djvu/144 (and the next page, of course); see also: scriptorium: "Link at two pages" (dec. 2013)

left margin and both margins - example here
align right - syntax: {{right|'''Example text'''}}; And Template:float right for an element on the same line. See Wikisource:Scriptorium/Help/Archives/2017#lay_out_of_index. Thanx to User:Beleg Tâl.

Template:User annotation: for footnotes by Wikisource contributor.
Template:W: short linking to Wikipedia

Rem:

poem is not a template, but a tag: <poem>....</poem>!

Font size[edit]

larger - This is larger;
x-larger - This is x-larger;
xx-larger - This is xx-larger;
xxx-larger - This is xxx-larger;
fine - not as small as smaller, but smaller than normal;
smaller - This is smaller;
x-smaller - This is x-smaller;
xx-smaller - This is xx-smaller

Special characters[edit]

mdash: — — — nl: gedachtestreepje or kastlijntje
ndash: – – — nl: halfkastlijntje

and see also:

Help on dashes on Wikipedia-en and Wikipedia-en on "Dashes"
w:nl:Liggend streepje in de Nederlandse spelling
How to render dashes on a keyboard

For differences between block and inline templates: Help:Block and inline elements

Tables[edit]

Table-styles: w:Help:Table
Make a table centered: style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto;" (w:Help:TABLECENTER) - see for instance: Page:The_Economic_Journal_Volume_1.djvu/67
and centered width 90%: style="width: 90%; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: none;" - see e.g. Page:PettyWilliam1899EconomicWritingsVol2.djvu/56
and align right: style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: 1em; border: none;" - see e.g.: Page:Petty_1851_The_Down_Survey.djvu/53
Help with tables and some styles used in formatting tables
template Table style
Tables across page breaks: Help:Page_breaks#Tables_across_page_breaks
for adjusting line-height: see e.g. Page:The Zoologist, 4th series, vol 1 (1897).djvu/447

Dotted tables (table with leader dots)[edit]

User:Dick Bos/Templates/Dottables

Tables with braces[edit]

Template:Brace or Template:Brace2 - {{Brace2}} makes: $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$ , {{Brace2|2}} makes: $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$ , {{Brace2|3|l}} makes: $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ etc.

Footnotes, endnotes and sidenotes[edit]

Colours[edit]

background: span style to create a background color;
⁠syntax: <span style="background-color:yellow;">span style to create a background color</span>
list of colors in Dutch, in English

Index namespace[edit]

Help:Index pages
Example of Index with missing page(s): Index:Petty 1851 The Down Survey.djvu - last two pages; don't forget to transclude them separately into the main namespace!

Main namespace[edit]

Help:Beginner's guide to transclusion, and
Help:Transclusion
Template:anchor to make an anchorpoint for linking; e.g. in Petty's Place in the History of Economic Theory to Contents.
Help:Redirects and Help:Disambiguation; see e.g. Author:Robert Hall

Author namespace[edit]

Template:Small scan link - link to Index; examples in: Author:Edmund Selous
Template:Ext scan link - link to external text; id.

linking to wikidata[edit]

Template:Wikidata link
Template:Cite Q now available!

Some special templates[edit]

Template:Aut from en-wiki
Template:DNB link for link to DNB
Template:scan for linking to a work, and its Index
Template:header for use in the main namespace, at the top of a "Work"
Template:Page for including a page in the main namespace; example: Political Arithmetick (1899)
Template:Delete en Template:Sdelete

Some help pages[edit]

Help:Beginner's guide to typography
Help with templates
Help with page breaks, for instance with tables across pages

Sections: when chapters start halfway the page[edit]

When a chapter starts halfway the page, like on Page:Sir William Petty - A Study in English Economic Literature - 1894.djvu/39, use section headers; and link to these headers in the main namespace: Bevan - Sir William Petty (1894)/II and Bevan - Sir William Petty (1894)/III. See: Help:Transclusion#How_to_transclude_a_portion_of_a_page.

Cleanup OCR tool[edit]

See: Wikisource:TemplateScript