Template:Usage of IPA templates

Usage of IPA pronunciation templates
Wikipedia offers several templates for proper display of IPA transcriptions.

IPA font
In general, IPA symbols on a page should be enclosed in the template, which formats the text in an IPA-producing font. If a substantial portion of a page uses IPA, it is customary to post notice of that fact with, though each token still requires the template for proper formatting.

If there are not enough occurrences to warrant a notice, then consider a template that links to an IPA key for the first instance of the IPA on a page or section.

English words
For English words, in a broad, non-regional transcription, as when giving the pronunciation of a key word in an article, use templates linking to Help:IPA for English, a chart of the subset of the IPA that is relevant to English:
 * IPA-en, appearing as: (also, , , as hereafter).
 * IPAc-en, which automates the conversion to IPA, so that  appears as . This provides mouse-over links to the symbols, and is now the preferred template.

Conversion to IPA
Another type of language-specific template allows you to enter ordinary letters (or conventional ASCII equivalents) from a given language for automatic conversion to phonetic symbols. Those currently available are IPAc-ar for Arabic, IPAc-cmn for Mandarin, IPAc-en for English, IPAc-fr for French, IPAc-ga for Irish, IPAc-hu for Hungarian, IPAc-pl for Polish and IPAc-ja for Japanese. For example: