Template:Gcl/doc

This template formats a single linguistic glossing abbreviation (a grammatical category label). For example,  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, pass it as a second parameter after the abbreviation itself:  gives: CONT.

The abbreviation will be rendered as a link to the relevant article if the glossing parameter is set to, thus   gives: CLF. The wikipedia article is specified by the third parameter:  gives: CLF. The presence of this third parameter (even if empty) will force the abbreviation to be displayed as a wikilink –  is equivalent to.

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 prevent a string from being treated as a glossing label at all, use no gloss.
 * 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: no link will force the use of the default formatting as an abbreviation with a tooltip, without turning it into a wikilink; no abbr will only format the label in small caps without treating it as an abbreviation. Additional CSS styles can be set using the style parameter.