Help:Template:Voweltable

Template:Voweltable

What is it for?

This template helps you make a table showing the vowels of your language.

In order the template uses named parameters; this means more typing, but with 38 parameters which all should be optional it is the only way to make the template manageable — and easier than coding the whole table yourself each time.

How does it work?

In order to get this:

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you enter this:

{{Voweltable| caption = Swedish dialect vowel spellings | i = i | y = y | I = î ''or'' ê | e = e | 2 = ö | 8\ =  — u | u\ = (u) | 8 = û | E = ä | & = (â) | a = â | &\ = (ô) | 3\ = ô | u = o | o = å | Q = a | A = (a) | @ = (e)}}

Where each | marks the beginning of a parameter definition of the form parameter name = parameter value.

In order to make the template call clearer you can format for example it like this:

{{Voweltable| caption = Swedish dialect vowel spellings |= 
 | i = i | y = y   | I = î ''or'' ê | e = e |= 
 | 2 = ö | 8\ =  — u | u\ = (u) | 8 = û |= 
 | E = ä | & = (â) | a = â | &\ = (ô) | 3\ = ô |=
 | u = o |  o = å  | Q = a | A = (a)  | @ = (e)}}

Everything from a |= up to the next | is 'invisible' to the wiki engine, so you can put newlines, comments etc. there.

You may also put any amount of optional whitespace on either side of a | or =.

A parameter value may not contain any | (use |

in the value instead! ☺)

All parameters are optional

Parameter name key

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Notes

1. ^  Actually a definition a 'nameless named variable' which doesn't get used in the template.
2. ^  And a parameter name may not contain any =. Not a problem to us as long as we use a CXS syllabic consonant transcription as a parameter name! ☺