Template:Lang-el/doc

Usage
The primary objective of this template (and of the other templates) is to tag non-English text so that both human and machine readers are able to properly interpret, display and understand non-English text as part of an effort to move towards a semantic web. To that end, proper use of these templates help web browsers to choose the correct display font, text-to-speech screen readers to select a more appropriate pronunciation, search engines to better index and relate the context of the content, translation services to properly interpret the words, spell checkers to properly allow and/or require diacritics, and so on.

Important metadata
Regardless of the label that is displayed in front of the text (e.g.: "Ancient Greek:" vs. "Greek:" vs. "Modern Greek"), this template will always wrap the supplied Greek text inside of appropriate HTML tags – that is to say that the Greek text will be tagged using the ISO 639-1 language code for Modern Greek:  "el". The following example wikicode:

produces the following HTML:

This metadata identifies the enclosed text as Modern Greek for the benefit of search engines, browsers, screen readers, translators, typesetters, and so on. To these "non-human readers", Modern Greek (encoded as "el") has important distinctions from e.g. Ancient Greek (appropriately encoded using "grc" by other templates). For that reason, this template should never be used with Ancient or Medieval or other Greek text.

Examples

 * {| class="wikitable"

! Code ! Result
 * άτομος
 * άτομος
 * άτομος
 * }
 * άτομος
 * άτομος
 * }
 * άτομος
 * }
 * }

Category
Articles using this template are automatically placed in Category:Articles containing Greek-language text.