Thread:User talk:CodeCat/All Macedonian Entries/reply (9)

Many entries in many languages use. Furthermore, many language-specific templates, like and the others for Macedonian, use  internally. Trying to do it separately for every template would be a real headache, and we would easily miss a few. If we edit directly, then we automatically catch all entries that use it, which is much easier.

Non-lemma forms do have a headword template. At least they should... if they don't then that needs to be fixed. In fact, is used more for non-lemma forms than for lemma forms, simply because there are more of them.

If you edit the code for the template, you see that there is some code with   in it. That is a module invocation; it means that a module with the name that follows is called, and the specific function and parameters are given. In this case, the module Module:headword/templates is run, and the function  is called inside it. That function then handles all the things the template needs to do.