Template:RQ:Boyle Porosity/documentation

Usage

This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Robert Boyle's work Experiments and Considerations about the Porosity of Bodies, in Two Essays (1st edition, 1684). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Google Books (archived at the Internet Archive).

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |chapter= –
  • If quoting from "To the Reader", specify |chapter=To the Reader. As it is unpaginated, use |2= or |page= to specify the "page number" assigned by Google Books to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URL is https://books.google.com/books?id=EC5mAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9, specify |page=9.
  • In other cases, use this parameter to specify the chapter number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals.
• |2= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from. If quoting a range of pages, note the following:
  • Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11.
  • You must also use |pageref= to indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).

This parameter must be specified to have the template determine the essay quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.

• |3=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
• |footer= – a comment on the passage quoted.
• |brackets= – use |brackets=on to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.

Examples

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Boyle Porosity|chapter=VIII|page=143|passage={{...}} I had once occaſion to diſtil in a ſmall Retort ſome Gold '''amalgamed''' vvith ſuch a fine and ſubtile Mercury, that being (vvithout the addition of any Salt) put to the Gold in the cold, they preſently grevv hot together.{{...}}}}; or
  • {{RQ:Boyle Porosity|VIII|143|{{...}} I had once occaſion to diſtil in a ſmall Retort ſome Gold '''amalgamed''' vvith ſuch a fine and ſubtile Mercury, that being (vvithout the addition of any Salt) put to the Gold in the cold, they preſently grevv hot together.{{...}}}}
• Result:
  • 1684, Robert Boyle, “An Essay on the Porousness of Solid Bodies. Chapter VIII.”, in Experiments and Considerations about the Porosity of Bodies, in Two Essays, London: […] Sam[uel] Smith […], →OCLC, page 143:

    […] I had once occaſion to diſtil in a ſmall Retort ſome Gold amalgamed vvith ſuch a fine and ſubtile Mercury, that being (vvithout the addition of any Salt) put to the Gold in the cold, they preſently grevv hot together.

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Boyle Porosity|chapter=III|pages=10–11|pageref=11|passage=[T]hat greater numbers of them [pores], {{...}} are perforations that paſs quite through the Leather, may, not improbably, be ſhevvn by the uſual Practice of Chymiſts, to purify Quick-ſilver by typing it up ſtrictly in a piece of kids or ſheeps Leather, and then '''vvringing''' it hard to force it out; {{...}}}}
• Result:
  • 1684, Robert Boyle, “An Essay on the Porousness of Animal Bodies. Chapter III.”, in Experiments and Considerations about the Porosity of Bodies, in Two Essays, London: […] Sam[uel] Smith […], →OCLC, pages 10–11:

    [T]hat greater numbers of them [pores], […] are perforations that paſs quite through the Leather, may, not improbably, be ſhevvn by the uſual Practice of Chymiſts, to purify Quick-ſilver by typing it up ſtrictly in a piece of kids or ſheeps Leather, and then vvringing it hard to force it out; […]