Template:RQ:Milton Smectymnuus/documentation

Usage

This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from John Milton's work An Apology for Smectymnuus (1642) as it appears in a collected edition of his prose works entitled A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton (1st edition, 1698, volume I). 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=, or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) of the work. If using |pages= to quote a range of pages, note the following:
  • Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=169–170.
  • 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).

This parameter must be specified to have the template link to the online version of the work.

• |2=, |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:Milton Smectymnuus|page=178|passage={{...}} And like a ſon of ''{{w|Belial}}'', vvithout the hire of ''[[w:Jezebel|Jeſabel]]'', charges me ''of blaſpheming God and the King'', as ordinarily he imagines ''me to drink Sack and ſvveare'', meerely becauſe this vvas a '''ſhred''' in his common place-Book, {{...}}}}; or
  • {{RQ:Milton Smectymnuus|178|={{...}} And like a ſon of ''{{w|Belial}}'', vvithout the hire of ''[[w:Jezebel|Jeſabel]]'', charges me ''of blaſpheming God and the King'', as ordinarily he imagines ''me to drink Sack and ſvveare'', meerely becauſe this vvas a '''ſhred''' in his common place-Book, {{...}}}}
• Result:
  • 1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 178:

    […] And like a ſon of Belial, vvithout the hire of Jeſabel, charges me of blaſpheming God and the King, as ordinarily he imagines me to drink Sack and ſvveare, meerely becauſe this vvas a ſhred in his common place-Book, […]

Technical information

This template relies on {{RQ:Milton Collected Works}}.