Template:32stories

Series short story contributions:

Purpose: This template generates an author to short fiction backlink table for 1632 series writers. It presents multiple books to stories associations as a two column table.
Usage: Give the abbreviation template name for the book as {{{1}}} etc... (odd numbers) and the story title in quotes as {{{2}}} (or other even numbers parameters). *Any such pair can be annotated by using the X=parameter, which must be fully formatted as desired. It esentially appends the preceding entry, so it can append that, or if used with a leading break <nowiki>(<br>) or {{I}} or {{I5}}, or even enclose a template.

32stories uses the short typing aid templates (anthogies only) "ROF-1", "ROF-2", "GG01", ..., "GG14",... and "34TRR" as input parameters, and once used the template of that name for generation of uniform output consistent in style across the project, whatever page it occurs on.

Subsequent (Additional) story links from a second article page in a series title can also be output by using the same parameter arrangement.

The story title should be quoted to perform the proper section link, as one programs the individual templates GG01, GG02,..., ROF-1, etcetera.

Other parameters

The parameter single= can be defined to generate the table as a single column. This is sometimes necessary to avoid right floating HTML elements such as photo's.

The parameters width and width2 can be given as another way of narrowing the table for right floating elements such as the Table of Contents. width2 <= width, both as a percentage. Normal default is width set to 98%, width2 to 46.5% which generates two columns within page width of 98% each of 46.5%. (A little (1% per side) is allowed for the table border.)

Only a few other HTML standard format keywords like border=, bgcolor= can be defined. (e.g. |border="1px solid blue"|bgcolor="#a9d9f9")

{{{titleline|
{{#if:{{{m|}}}
  |<br>''Appears in the stories:''
  |''Series short story contributions:''
}}
}}}

The lead in line "" can be altered using 'titleline=' or 'm' (selecting between the alternative boilerplate lead in which is "Appears in the stories:")

1.0. Default titleline: "Series short story contributions:"

1.1. Used from writers article or section on 1632 writers to link to stories, or books

2.0. Alternative standard (secondary) titleline: "Appears in the stories:"

2.1. Used to link from a character section in 1632 characters or main characters' article page to books/stories wherein the character appears.

To list a characters appearances: "Appears in the stories:" (In this mode, use X/x with Article name template {{35TCL}}, {{1632}}, etc. Note, X has no formating biases... it must be defined as you want to see the results. X can be used multiple times however, consider Mike Stearns appearances might be listed:

{{32stories|m=1|single=yes

|X=''In the novels: {{1632}}, {{1633}}''

|x=<br/>and most {{ROF-1}} stories

|X=<br/>he's mentioned in virtually all [[The Grantville Gazettes]]

|x=<br/>and novels:{{I5}}{{34TGA}} {{I5}}{{34TRR}}

{{I5}}{{34TBW}} {{I5}}{{34... {{35TCL}} and take note how instead of listing the gazettes templates, we listed the main gazettes article...

Note: This template uses the subtemplate/subpage Template:32L (edit talk links history) [Once, 32stories/List, but long name added to memory usage too much with reentrant nature] to generate 'reentrant linking' in a small template size with respect to pre-expansion limits. (early versions had expansion size problems, and was limited to one title per article page)