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This template formats a single linguisticglossing abbreviation(agrammaticalcategorylabel). For example,{{gcl|CONT}}produces:CONT.Hovering the mouse over the abbreviation displays a tooltip with its meaning, which in this case is "continuous aspect". To specify a meaning different from the default one,[1]pass it as a second parameter after the abbreviation itself:{{gcl|CONT|continuative}}gives:CONT.
The abbreviation will be rendered as a link to the relevant article if the|glossing=parameter is set towikilink,thus{{gcl|CLF|glossing=wikilink}}gives:CLF.The wikipedia article is specified by the third parameter:{{gcl|CLF|classifier|Chinese classifier}}gives:CLF.The presence of this third parameter (even if empty) will force the abbreviation to be displayed as a wikilink –{{gcl|CLF||}}is equivalent to{{gcl|CLF|glossing=wikilink}}.
This template is mainly used within{{interlinear}}.It will exempt its content from the default glossing behaviour in the interlinear text. This can be needed in several circumstances:
- to set the meaning of an abbreviation that is otherwise not recognised;
- to use an abbreviation with a meaning different from the default one, or linking to a different article from the default one;
- to apply formatting to a portion of a glossing abbreviation (within
{{interlinear}}this would prevent the abbreviation from being recognised); - to exempt an abbreviation from the default
{{interlinear}}formatting. To this end, two further values of the|glossing=parameter can be used:|glossing=no linkwill force the use of the default formatting as an abbreviation with a tooltip, without turning it into a wikilink;|glossing=no abbrwill only format the label in small caps without treating it as an abbreviation. Additional CSS styles[2]can be set using the|style=parameter.
To prevent a string from being treated as a glossing label at all, use{{no gloss}}.
Notes
- ^The default assignments come fromthe module data page.
- ^Seehttps://www.w3schools.com/html/html_styles.asp,with the caveat that not all html features are available in wikitext, seeHelp:HTML in wikitext.