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		<h1>Macro attributes</h1> 
		<h2>Glyph</h2>
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							  <p>Although a macro can take any number of parameters, they are often no more than two or three, for readibility reasons: parameters have no name, but their position within a macro is significant.</p>
<p>If you have something like this:</p>

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  <p>it may still be easy enough to understand what each parameter is used for, but:</p>
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	<li>you can easily forget that the third parameter is the image width</li>
	<li>if you don&#8217;t want to resize the image, you still have to pass <em>empty parameters</em> to the macro, like this: <code>custom_image[test2.png|||Test Image]</code></li>
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<p>To avoid these situations, some macros which would normally take three or four parameters take optional attributes instead, so you can write:</p>
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<span class="line-numbers"><a href="#n2" name="n2">2</a></span>  @width[50%]
<span class="line-numbers"><a href="#n3" name="n3">3</a></span>  @alt[Test Image]
<span class="line-numbers"><a href="#n4" name="n4">4</a></span>  @height[50%]
<span class="line-numbers"><a href="#n5" name="n5">5</a></span>]
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  <p>More verbose, of course, but definitely more readable. In this way, if you won't want to scale an image, you can safely omit the <code>@width</code> and <code>@height</code> attributes.</p>
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<span class="note-title">Note</span>Like parameters, attributes can contain other macros, too.

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