Template:Italics correction/doc
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Use {{italics correction}} to increase the spacing (by 0.15em) following italic text to keep it from running into an immediately subsequent non-italic character, such as a closing parenthesis. The template takes one unnamed parameter: the text. The template can be included within or its parameter may include the italics markup, which is not provided by this template itself.
Examples
[edit]Using the wiki markup (''Harbi'') without the template would produce (Harbi) with the italicized 'i' intruding into the ')'. ({{italics correction|''Harbi''}}) produces (Harbi) instead.
TemplateData
[edit]No description.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| text | 1 | no description | String | required |
Technical note
[edit]The kerning problem with italics has, as of April 2021, no automated solutions in the web browser, so the use of this template remains necessary. The underlying font standards generally don't have support for this feature, so this issue should not be expected to be fixed anytime soon. (OpenType only has italics correction in the TeX-inspired MATH table – see also this discussion on typedrawers.)
See also
[edit]- {{pad}}, to produce whitespace (e.g. {{pad|0.5em}})
- {{'s}}, to enter an apostrophe and "s" after italicized titles
- {{'"}} and related, to kern apart consecutive quotation marks
- {{px2}}
- WP:ITALICTITLE
{{Italic title}}{{Italic disambiguation}}{{Italic title prefixed}}{{Title language}}
| Wiki markup Transclusion from template: |
Involves | Correct name | Actual article name |
|---|---|---|---|
| {{Italic title}} | Title in italics | Odyssey | Odyssey |
| {{Italic title|all=yes}} | Complete title in italics, including parentheses | Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) | Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) |
| {{Italic title|string=Ally McBeal}} | Phrase of |string= in italics |
List of Ally McBeal episodes | List of Ally McBeal episodes |
| {{Italic title|all=yes|string=Time}} | Phrase of |string= in italics; also looks in parentheses |
You (Time Person of the Year) | You (Time Person of the Year) |
| {{Italic disambiguation}} | Disambiguation in italics | Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels) | Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels) |
| {{Lowercase title}} | Lowercase first character | eBay | EBay |
| {{Lowercase title|italic=yes}} | Lowercase first character and place title in italics, not including disambiguation | iCarly (soundtrack) | ICarly (soundtrack) |
| {{Lowercase title|italic=yes|force=yes}} | Lowercase first character and place title in italics, including disambiguation | i 2 (EYE) | I 2 (EYE) |
| {{Lowercase title|dab=yes}} | Lowercase first character and place disambiguation in italics | iSpy (Modern Family) | ISpy (Modern Family) |
| {{Italic title prefixed|10}} | Italicize after the number of characters at the beginning of the title, not including disambiguation | Battlestar Galactica (fictional spacecraft) | Battlestar Galactica (fictional spacecraft) |
| {{Italic title prefixed|11|force=yes}} | Italicize after the number of characters at the beginning of the title, including disambiguation | Bill C-27: An Act to amend the Criminal Code (identity theft and related misconduct) | Bill C-27: An Act to amend the Criminal Code (identity theft and related misconduct) |
| {{Title language|la}} | Indicates that the title is in the foreign language specified by the parameter and sets the text to italics. Preferable to {{Italic title}} for foreign titles per MOS:FOREIGNITALICS | Ad hominem | Ad hominem |
| {{Title language|de|italic=no}} | Indicates that the title is in the foreign language specified by the parameter but disables italics | Schottenstift | Schottenstift |
| Magic word | |||
| {{DISPLAYTITLE:_NSAKEY}} | Various | _NSAKEY | NSAKEY |
| Title corrections | |||
| {{Correct title}} | Various | <|°_°|> | Robot Face |
| {{Correct title|reason=bracket}} | < > [ ] { } | Benzo[a]pyrene | Benzo(a)pyrene |
| {{Correct title|reason=#}} | # | Pilot #5 | Pilot No. 5 |
| {{Correct title|reason=vbar}} | | | C|T Group | C/T Group |
| {{Correct title|reason=:}} | : | DK: King of Swing | DK King of Swing |
| {{Correct title|reason=.}} | . | . | Period (album) |
| {{Correct title|reason=length}} | Title exceeding 256 bytes | The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether from Lack of Ideas or from Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won. | The Boy Bands Have Won |