Template:Hill synonyms/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Hill synonyms.
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template uses block elements, e.g. <div> or <p>.
It should not be nested inside an inline element, e.g. <span>, or a template that produces such an element.

See H:DIVSPAN for details.

This template uses TemplateStyles:

Template:Hill synonyms/styles.css

{{Hill synonyms}}, {{Hill synonyms/s}} {{Hill synonyms/e}} and {{Hill synonym}} are used to format the synonym lists in the relevant pages of Hill's Manual of Social and Business Forms

Usage edit

The "wrapper" template is {{Hill synonyms}} which takes a single parameter input, being a series of line-feed seperated invocations of {{Hill synonym}}.

{{Hill synonym}} takes 2 parameters,

1 is the "root" word ( and will be displayed in Smallcaps.
2 is the list of synonyms, (and will be displayed in normal caps.)

{{Hill synonyms|
{{Hill synonym|root1|definition1, definition 2, definition 3}}
{{Hill synonym|root2|definition3, definition 4, definition 5}}
}}

root1—definition1, definition 2, definition 3

root2—definition3, definition 4, definition 5

Paged version edit

/s and /e variants are provided for use with Page: ed content.

{{Hill synonyms/s}}
{{Hill synonym|root1|definition1, definition 2, definition 3}}
{{Hill synonym|root2|definition3, definition 4, definition 5}}
..
{{Hill synonym|rootX|definitionX1, definition X2, definition X3}}
{{Hill synonyms/e}}

Will produce:

root—definition1, definition 2, definition 3

root2—definition3, definition 4, definition 5

..

rootX—definitionX1, definition X2, definition X3

The /s and /e must be paired within a Page. They will typically be placed in the body of the Page: with the counterpart in the header or footer respectively.