Template talk:R

Can anyone explain to me why there is an extra newline after this template's contents? Can anyone remove it, please?? --Larry Sanger 13:24, 6 May 2008 (CDT)

To answer my own question, it's caused by the fact that we place newlines between each use of the template, like this:

{{r|Biology}}
{{r|Microbiology}}
{{r|Cell Biology}}

That outputs:

• Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. ^[e]
• Microbiology [r]: The study of microorganisms (overlapping with areas of virology, bacteriology, mycology, and parasitology). ^[e]
• Cell Biology [r]: The study of the components of cells and their interactions. ^[e]

But the r template itself adds an asterisk, which adds its own newline (before the asterisk). That's two newlines. To eliminate extra newlines, you could do this:

{{r|Biology}}{{r|Microbiology}}{{r|Cell Biology}}

which outputs:

• Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. ^[e]
• Microbiology [r]: The study of microorganisms (overlapping with areas of virology, bacteriology, mycology, and parasitology). ^[e]
• Cell Biology [r]: The study of the components of cells and their interactions. ^[e]

--Larry Sanger 13:55, 6 May 2008 (CDT)