Module:RQ:pi:Sinhala Dighanikaya 1/documentation
This module is a data module providing a catalogue of passages from one particular book or article for each passage to demonstrate the existence of multiple Pali words. The modules returns a 3-D array (technically a Lua table), indexed as follows:
- The outer index is the page number.
- The second index is a character string serving as the name of the passage within the page - using the first word is the simplest scheme.
- The third index is an element number - the text (item 1), its transliteration (item 2) (optional) and its translation (item 3).
The table has one named element, "reference", that holds the name of the template (namely, {{RQ:pi:Sinhala Dighanikaya 1}}) used to identify the source to the reader and format the quote, its transliteration and its translation.
The intention is that the word will be highlighted when selected by these three indices. Words are assigned positive numbers and their boundaries are marked up in the form {number-word}. This mark up can be nested, so that words may contain other words. Different sections may have the same number; this allows for repeated words, overlapping words, and discontiguous translations.
The words are transcluded into a page using an invocation of the form {{RQ:pi:Sinhala Dighanikaya 1 quote|2|tatra|9}}; this example produces the text:
- තත්ර සුදං සුප්පියො පරිබ්බාජකො අනෙකපරියායෙන බුද්ධස්ස අවණ්ණං භාසති, ධම්මස්ස අවණ්ණං භාසති, සඞ්ඝස්ස අවණ්ණං භාසති.
- Tatra sudaṃ suppiyo paribbājako anekapariyāyena buddhassa avaṇṇaṃ bhāsati, dhammassa avaṇṇaṃ bhāsati, saṅghassa avaṇṇaṃ bhāsati.
- Now just then Suppiya the mendicant was speaking in many ways in dispraise of the Buddha, in dispraise of the Doctrine, in dispraise of the Order.
There is no advantage in including a passage for the sake of one word; one can use {{RQ:pi:Sinhala Dighanikaya 1}} directly for that purpose.