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This template formats a single linguistic glossing abbreviation (a grammatical category label). 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 to wikilink, 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 from the module data page.
- ^ See https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_styles.asp, with the caveat that not all html features are available in wikitext, see Help:HTML in wikitext.