Template:TA
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- The action of the TA template with no pass parameter is shown above. It forms a link to the AM&C TOC page.
- usage
This template forms an internal link to the Trainz wikibook with placeholder parameter {{{1}}}
, and incorporates an option to access a sub-sub-page given the optional 3rd default parameter: {{{3}}}
as well allowing for as an optional pretty-link re-title parameter '2' allowing {{{2}}} and/or '|3=sub-page/'
formatted link calls ... all forming the link and all links in the wikimarkup as:
[[Trainz/AM&C/{{{3|}}}{{{1}}}|{{{p|{{{2|{{{1}}}}}}}}}]]
- Users unfamiliar with wiki-markup parameter parsing, just focus on {{{2}}} or '|2=text' overriding the presented text of the link,
- and {{{3}}}/ or '|3=sub-sub-linktext/' giving a prefix to a sub-sub-page, so the subject page is:
[[Trainz/AM&C/{{{3}}}/{{{1}}} | {{{2}}}]], pipe-linked as {{{2}}}
- if and when given, {{{3}}}/ MUST HAVE a trailing '/' to form a proper link.
The observant and discerning reader will have noted the '| p=' for 'pretty parameter' overrides '2', as it does for most all Trainz link templates. Example-1, expanded paste down:
- This is because all template default parameters, formally 'numbered parameters' can also be specified like this:
{{TA |1=Tips And Tricks |2=Tips }} which in wiki-markup language is processed exactly the same as {{TA |Tips And Tricks |Tips }}.
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In-line Examples:
- {{TA|Tips And Tricks}} links as:
[[Trainz/AM&C/Tips And Tricks|Tips And Tricks]]
and the other formulation:[[/AM&C/Tips And Tricks|Tips And Tricks]]
both would.
- But... is much easier to edit around on a page when trying to get the best prose presentation.
- Similarly:
{{TA|Tips And Tricks|Tricks}}
links as if the constructs:[[Trainz/AM&C/Tips And Tricks|Tricks]]
and[[/AM&C/Tips And Tricks|Tricks]]
which is perhaps part of the phrase you want.
Which do you think is easiest to look past in a paragraph filled with prose and multiple links?
- Sub-subpage links will mainly be needed in the forthcoming Errorfixing series of tutorials and the Programmed Instruction (Trainz A-Z) linked progressive tutorials off their own sub-TOC base page.
- Planned use of Sub-sub-pages... Better than splitting the book down the multiple tracks... we're going to make a lot of new pages in the PI tutorials! Whether for beginners or intermediate Trainzers, they'll all end in content creation and other advanced topics like TransDEM map generation anyway.