Template:RQ:Macaulay Ancient Rome/documentation
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Usage
[edit]This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote from Thomas Babington Macaulay's work Lays of Ancient Rome (1st edition, 1842). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Google Books (archived at the Internet Archive).
| Chapter | First page number |
|---|---|
| Preface | page 3 |
| Horatius | page 39 |
| The Battle of the Lake Regillus | page 77 |
| Virginia | page 133 |
| The Prophecy of Capys | page 165 |
Parameters
[edit]The template takes the following parameters:
|stanza=– the stanza number quoted from in Arabic numerals.|1=or|page=, or|pages=– mandatory: the page number(s) quoted from. When quoting a range of pages, note the following:- Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this:
|pages=10–11. - You must also use
|pageref=to specify the page number that the template should link to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).
- Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this:
- You must specify this information to have the template determine the name of the chapter quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.
|2=,|text=, or|passage=– a passage to be quoted from the work.|footer=– a comment about the passage quoted.|brackets=– use|brackets=onto 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
[edit]- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Macaulay Ancient Rome|stanza=7|page=49|passage=But now no '''stroke''' of woodman / Is heard by Auser's rill; {{...}}}}; or{{RQ:Macaulay Ancient Rome|stanza=7|49|But now no '''stroke''' of woodman / Is heard by Auser's rill; {{...}}}}
- Result:
- 1834–1838 (date written), Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Horatius”, in Lays of Ancient Rome, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], published 1842, →OCLC, stanza 7, page 49:
- But now no stroke of woodman / Is heard by Auser's rill; […]
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