Template:Talk quotation
Example text
Usage edit
Template {{talk quotation}} (a.k.a. {{tq}}) serves two common purposes:
- It is used on talk pages (and Wikispecies process pages, e.g. noticeboards) to highlight quoted material (of other editors' comments or from an article or source).
- It is also used to format examples of style, especially when using quotation marks or italics could be confusing. In this use, it is an alternative to
{{xt}}(a template used frequently in the Manual of Style), useful when inline typeface changes are needed.
By default, the template changes the given text to serif typeface and green color
. The accompanying change in typeface to a serif (roman) or italic type style (example text
) is to make it fully accessible for those with color blindness.
Parameters edit
|1= The text to highlight with the template. As with all templates, when the text, given as the template parameter, contains an equals character (=), prefixing the text with |1= is required to ensure the character is correctly interpreted as being part of the normal text; otherwise it will break the template.
|italic=yes or |i=yes will force the content to be green and italicised only
(no change to serif font style); any value may be used, e.g. |i=y. This is typically used inside a block of text that is already serif-styled to make the highlighted text stand out better.
|roman=yes or |serif=yes (default) will force the content to green and roman (serif) font only
(no italicisation); any value may be used.
|title= takes text, which cannot be marked up in any way, and displays it as a pop-up "tooltip" (in most browsers) when the cursor hovers over the span. The most common use of this is to provide attribution.
Examples edit
- What you write
...when you said, {{tq|Lorem ipsum '''dolor''' sit}}, and, {{tq|consectetur adipiscing elit|i=yes|title=This is a tooltip}}.- What you get
- ...when you said,
Lorem ipsum dolor sit
, and,consectetur adipiscing elit
.