Template:Lang-grc/sandbox/doc
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Usage
The primary objective of this template (and of the other {{lang}}
templates) is to tag non-English text so that both human and machine readers are able to properly interpret, display and understand non-English text as part of an effort to move towards a semantic web. To that end, proper use of these templates help web browsers to choose the correct display font, text-to-speech screen readers to select a more appropriate pronunciation, search engines to better index and relate the context of the content, translation services to properly interpret the words, spell checkers to properly allow and/or require diacritics, and so on.
Important metadata
Regardless of the label that is displayed in front of the text (i.e.: "Ancient Greek:" vs. "Greek"), this template will always wrap the supplied Ancient Greek text inside of appropriate HTML <span>...</span>
tags – that is to say that the Ancient Greek text will be tagged using the ISO 639-2 and ISO-639-3 language code for Ancient Greek: "grc". The following example wikicode:
{{lang-grc|ἄτομος|átomos|indivisible, an atom}}
produces the following HTML:
<a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a>:
<span lang="grc" xml:lang="grc">ἄτομος</span>
<span title="Ancient Greek transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none"><i>átomos</i></span>
"indivisible, an atom"
This metadata identifies the enclosed text as Ancient Greek for the benefit of search engines, browsers, screen readers, translators, typesetters, and so on. To these "non-human readers", Ancient Greek (encoded as "grc") has important distinctions from Modern Greek (appropriately encoded using "ell", "gre" or "grk" by other {{lang}}
templates). For that reason, this template should never be used with Modern or Medieval or other Greek text.
Syntax
- {{lang-grc
- |Ancient Greek text – using the Greek polytonic alphabet (with diacritics). (mandatory) – must be the 1st field
- |transliterated text – the same text, transliterated using Latin alphabet (see Romanization of Greek). (optional) – must be the 2nd field or numbered with
|2=
- |translated text – in English. (optional) – must be the 3rd field or numbered with
|3=
- }}
The given transliteration and translation/gloss can be labeled explicitly as such in the template output (in which case parameter order does not matter):
- {{lang-grc
- |Ancient Greek text – using the Greek polytonic alphabet (with diacritics). (mandatory) – must be the 1st field
- |translit=transliterated text – the same text, transliterated using Latin alphabet. (optional)
- |lit=translated text – in English. (optional)
- }}
Examples
Code Result {{lang-grc|ἄτομος}} Ancient Greek: ἄτομος {{lang-grc|ἄτομος|átomos}} Ancient Greek: ἄτομος, romanized: átomos {{lang-grc|ἄτομος|translit=átomos}} Ancient Greek: ἄτομος, romanized: átomos {{lang-grc|ἄτομος|átomos|indivisible, an atom}} Ancient Greek: ἄτομος, romanized: átomos, lit. 'indivisible, an atom' {{lang-grc|ἄτομος| |indivisible, an atom}} Ancient Greek: ἄτομος, lit. 'indivisible, an atom'
Deprecated: Most of our readers cannot transliterate Greek in their heads{{lang-grc|ἄτομος|translit=átomos|lit=indivisible}} Ancient Greek: ἄτομος, romanized: átomos, lit. 'indivisible' {{lang-grc|ἄτομος|átomos|indivisible, an atom (lit: 'that [which] cannot be cut')}} Ancient Greek: ἄτομος, romanized: átomos, lit. 'indivisible, an atom (lit: 'that [which] cannot be cut')' {{lang-grc|ἄτομος|&átomos;|indivisible, an atom|lit=that [which] cannot be cut)}} [ἄτομος] error: {{lang-xx}}: conflicting: {{{3}}} and |lit= or |translation= (help)
Category
Articles using this template are automatically placed in Category:Articles containing Ancient Greek-language text.
See also
{{lang-el}}
for Modern Greek.{{lang-ell}}
for Modern Greek explicitly stated and linked so in the label.{{lang-gkm}}
for Medieval Greek.{{lang-grc-gre}}
for which the Ancient Greek description is not satisfactory or limiting.{{lang|el}}
and{{lang|ell}}
tags Modern Greek text, without the label (for use with custom display, and other uses).{{lang|grc}}
tags Ancient Greek text, without the label (for use with custom display, and other uses).{{transl|grc}}
tags text as "Ancient Greek Transliteration" (has no visible effect other than said tag when pointer is placed on text).