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New Use

I have recently taken to using this as if it took an anonymous argument, as a way of "commenting out" excess verbiage:

He went to the foo {{...|, blah blah blah blah}} and barred.

This allows us to preserve the original text of the quotation -- in case other users ever need to refer to it -- without bogging down the visible entry text in non-illustrative gunk. I thought I should mention this here in case someone was actually thinking of adding an anonymous arg, which would conflict with this. -- Visviva 07:01, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

That is brilliant. I'm going to start doing that as well. —Amit _TALK 06:57, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Brackets italicized when used in {{quote-book}}

@Erutuon: following this update to the template by @Catonif, is there a way of updating "Module:italics" (if this is the correct module) so that if {{...}} is used in the title parameter of {{quote-book}} the brackets are not italicized? Compare the following:

• {{quote-book|en|title=This is a test: [...]}}
• (Can we date this quote?), This is a test: […]:

• {{quote-book|en|title=This is a test: {{...|test}}}}
• (Can we date this quote?), This is a test: […] :

Thanks. — Sgconlaw (talk) 09:21, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

@Sgconlaw Oh, did the brackets display unitalicised before my change? Sorry about that, I didn't take that into consideration. My change can (hopefully temporarily?) be reverted, as I presume instances of {{...}} inside links (currently afaik only in lutra#Latin) are way less numerous that the instances in italic text. Catonif (talk) 09:38, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

@Catonif: yes, this is an issue that has been around for a while but we have yet to resolve. — Sgconlaw (talk) 11:22, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

@Sgconlaw Well I added this to my CSS, and it worked. It could be added to the global CSS. Not sure if it's the best solution. Catonif (talk) 08:50, 10 June 2023 (UTC)