Template:IPA/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:IPA (see that page for the template itself).
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

Usage[edit]

Template:IPA is most useful when there are multiple instances of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) on a page. It contains

<span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA">{{{1}}}</span>

This means, it simply specifies a class called “IPA” as a hook for CSS styling and DOM scripting.

This allows fixing broken display of IPA characters in MS Internet Explorer 6 for Windows, and choice of style in any browser.

The font declaration is in MediaWiki:Common.js and targets only Windows XP. Registered Festipedia users can specify their own style for IPA text by editing, for each project, their user style sheet, e.g. monobook.css. Users can also specify the style locally in their browser, which works across projects.

MediaWiki:Common.css also ensures that links inside IPA transcriptions marked up with this template do not use underlines since these carry special semantics there.

TemplateData[edit]

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools.

IPA

This template ensures proper display of transcriptions using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), especially in older operating systems and browsers. There are related specialized templates that also semi-automatically generate the transcription itself.

Template parameters
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
transcription	`1`	including square brackets [...] for phonetic transcriptions or enclosing forward slashes /.../ for phonemic ones	String	required

Examples[edit]

Placing a phonemic rendering of the word characters in Template:IPA:

{{IPA|/ˈkærəktɚz/}}
{{IPA|/[[character|ˈkærəktɚz]]/}}

The result will be a span with a class attribute, like this:

<span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA">/ˈkærəktɚz/</span>

Which appear in your browser as:

/ˈkærəktɚz/

Without template:IPA:

/ˈkærəktɚz/

[These sets should only look different if you are using Internet Explorer 6 or lower on Windows, or if you have a custom style defined for IPA text.]

Please place all IPA text into Template:IPA, even if it doesn't have any special IPA characters, like this: /mi/. This will allow users to format all examples of IPA text consistently, with their choice of fonts, colours, etc.

List of fonts[edit]

The following is a list of fonts that are used using this template.

Lucida Sans Unicode
Arial Unicode MS