Template talk:R

Extra newline

Can anyone explain to me why there is an extra newline after this template's contents? Can anyone remove it, please?? --Larry Sanger 13:24, 6 May 2008 (CDT)

To answer my own question, it's caused by the fact that we place newlines between each use of the template, like this:

{{r|Biology}}
{{r|Microbiology}}
{{r|Cell Biology}}

That outputs:

• Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. ^[e]
• Microbiology [r]: The study of microorganisms (overlapping with areas of virology, bacteriology, mycology, and parasitology). ^[e]
• Cell Biology [r]: The study of the components of cells and their interactions. ^[e]

But the r template itself adds an asterisk, which adds its own newline (before the asterisk). That's two newlines. To eliminate extra newlines, you could do this:

{{r|Biology}}{{r|Microbiology}}{{r|Cell Biology}}

which outputs:

• Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. ^[e]
• Microbiology [r]: The study of microorganisms (overlapping with areas of virology, bacteriology, mycology, and parasitology). ^[e]
• Cell Biology [r]: The study of the components of cells and their interactions. ^[e]

--Larry Sanger 13:55, 6 May 2008 (CDT)

Formatting limits

Note that even though both:

{{r|Biology}}
{{r|Cell (biology)||**}}

• Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. ^[e]
  • Cell (biology) [r]: The basic unit of life, consisting of biochemical networks enclosed by a membrane. ^[e]

and:

{{r|Biology}}
**{{r|Cell (biology)||}}

• Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. ^[e]
  • Cell (biology) [r]: The basic unit of life, consisting of biochemical networks enclosed by a membrane. ^[e]

work, however:

{{r|Biology}}
*{{r|Cell (biology)||*}}

• Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. ^[e]
• Cell (biology) [r]: The basic unit of life, consisting of biochemical networks enclosed by a membrane. ^[e]

doesn't. The best theory about why is that it must be that thing with an extra newline being emitted - it must be coming out after the leading '*' and before the second '*' (in the no-working cases), i.e. right at the start of the template invocation. That's why the ones with the '**' (at either end) work, that new line is not splitting the two '*'s apart. In those middle ones, the reason the naked bullet is coming out right up on the left margin is that it sees:

*
*[[link]]

not:

**[[link]]

and of course then we get two separate bullets, fully left-justified. Dont ask me why the **{{r|link||}} case works, because it should be seeing:

**
[[link]]

if my theory about when the 'rogue' new line is appearing is correct, but clearly it's not appearing then! J. Noel Chiappa 11:47, 20 May 2008 (CDT)