Template:RQ:Marston Insatiate Countesse/documentation

Usage

This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from John Marston, and/or William Barkstead and Lewis Machin's work The Insatiate Countesse. A Tragedie (1st edition, 1613). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |page= – mandatory: as the work is unpaginated, use this parameter to specify the "page number" assigned by the Internet Archive ("IA") to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URL is https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-rbsc_PR2694I51613_the-insatiate-countesse-20587/page/n20/mode/1up, specify |page=20. This parameter must be specified to have the template determine the act number (I–V) quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.
• |act= – mandatory in some cases: in most cases, if the IA page number is specified the template can determine the act number quoted from. The template is unable to do so if page 33, 48, or 77 is specified, in which case |act= must be used to manually specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, for example, |act=I.

Act I IA pages 20–33

Act II IA pages 33–48

Act III IA pages 48–62

Act IV IA pages 63–77

Act V IA pages 77–91

• |sig= or |signature=, and |verso= – as the work is unpaginated, |sig= or |signature= can be used to specify the signature number quoted from, which is indicated at the bottom centre of some pages. If quoting from a verso (left-hand) page specify |verso=1 or |verso=yes; if |verso= is omitted, the template indicates that a recto (right-hand) page is quoted.
  • If a signature number is not indicated on a page, extrapolate it from the signature numbers before and after the page and enclose it in brackets using [ and ] For example, if the previous signature number is A3 and the next one is B, specify the missing signature number as |sig=[A4]: see the example below.
  • If quoting a range of signatures, for example, "signatures A2, verso – A3, recto", use |sig= or |signature=, and |verso=, to specify the signature at the start of the range, and |sigend= or |signatureend=, and |versoend=, (if required) to specify the signature at the end of the range.
  • If this parameter is omitted, the template links the URL of the online version of the work to the act number.
• |2=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
• |footer= – a comment about 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

Signature specified

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Marston Insatiate Countesse|sig=I2|page=84|passage=I fall to riſe, mount to thy maker, ſpirit, /. Leaue here thy body, death ha's her '''demerit'''.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Marston Insatiate Countesse|sig=I2|84|I fall to riſe, mount to thy maker, ſpirit, /. Leaue here thy body, death ha's her '''demerit'''.}}
• Result:
  • c. 1610 (first performance), attributed to John Marston, and/or William Barkstead and Lewis Machin, The Insatiate Countesse. A Tragedie: […], London: […] T[homas] S[nodham] for Thomas Archer, […], published 1613, →OCLC, Act V, signature I2, recto:

    I fall to riſe, mount to thy maker, ſpirit, /. Leaue here thy body, death ha's her demerit.

Signature not specified

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Marston Insatiate Countesse|page=84|passage=I fall to riſe, mount to thy maker, ſpirit, /. Leaue here thy body, death ha's her '''demerit'''.}}
• Result:
  • c. 1610 (first performance), attributed to John Marston, and/or William Barkstead and Lewis Machin, The Insatiate Countesse. A Tragedie: […], London: […] T[homas] S[nodham] for Thomas Archer, […], published 1613, →OCLC, Act V:

    I fall to riſe, mount to thy maker, ſpirit, /. Leaue here thy body, death ha's her demerit.