Difference between revisions of "Template:Example"
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">{{{text}}}</pre>  | ">{{{text}}}</pre><noinclude>  | ||
==Usage==  | |||
Provides a simple method of displaying text in a colored box with a fixed-pitch font.  Also, unlike with <pre>...</pre> tags or the wiki markup of starting a line with a space, any long lines of text will wrap to the screen's width.  This makes it useful for displaying examples of MARC fields or entire MARC records.  | |||
To indent a box in order to align it with text in a bullet list or the like, use the "indent=" parameter with a number of ems to indent the box. (1 em is usually roughly equivalent to the indenting distance a browser uses for each level of a list.)  | |||
==Examples==  | |||
<nowiki>{{example|text=504  Includes index.}}</nowiki> gives:  | |||
{{example|text=504  Includes index.}}  | |||
{{example|text=<br>  | |||
100 1  Smith, John.<br>  | |||
245 10 Baseball, hot dogs, and apple pie /{{subfield|c}}by John Smith.}}<br>  | |||
gives:  | |||
{{example|text=  | |||
100 1  Smith, John.  | |||
245 10 Baseball, hot dogs, and apple pie /{{subfield|c}}by John Smith.}}  | |||
<nowiki>{{example|indent=1|text=504  Includes index.}}</nowiki> gives:  | |||
{{example|indent=1|text=504  Includes index.}}  | |||
</noinclude>  | |||
Latest revision as of 20:26, 28 November 2008
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Usage
Provides a simple method of displaying text in a colored box with a fixed-pitch font. Also, unlike with <pre>...</pre> tags or the wiki markup of starting a line with a space, any long lines of text will wrap to the screen's width. This makes it useful for displaying examples of MARC fields or entire MARC records.
To indent a box in order to align it with text in a bullet list or the like, use the "indent=" parameter with a number of ems to indent the box. (1 em is usually roughly equivalent to the indenting distance a browser uses for each level of a list.)
Examples
{{example|text=504 Includes index.}} gives:
504 Includes index.
{{example|text=
100 1  Smith, John.
245 10 Baseball, hot dogs, and apple pie /{{subfield|c}}by John Smith.}}
gives:
100 1  Smith, John.
245 10 Baseball, hot dogs, and apple pie /‡cby John Smith.
{{example|indent=1|text=504 Includes index.}} gives:
504 Includes index.