Template:RQ:Scott Monastery/documentation
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Usage
[edit]This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Walter Scott's work The Monastery (1st edition, 1820, 3 volumes). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at Google Books:
- Volume I (archived at the Internet Archive).
- Volume II (archived at the Internet Archive).
- Volume III (archived at the Internet Archive).
Parameters
[edit]The template takes the following parameters:
|1=
or|volume=
– mandatory: the volume number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, either|volume=I
,|volume=II
, or|volume=III
.|2=
or|chapter=
– the chapter number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals. The chapter numbers start from I in each volume.|3=
or|page=
, or|pages=
– mandatory in some cases: 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 indicate the page to be linked 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:
- This parameter must be specified to have the template link to the online version of the work.
|4=
,|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
[edit]- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Scott Monastery|volume=III|chapter=X|page=244|passage=His '''mother-wit''' taught him that he must not, in such uncertain times, be too hasty in asking information of any one, {{...}}}}
; or{{RQ:Scott Monastery|III|X|244|His '''mother-wit''' taught him that he must not, in such uncertain times, be too hasty in asking information of any one, {{...}}}}
- Result:
- 1820 March, [Walter Scott], chapter X, in The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 244:
- His mother-wit taught him that he must not, in such uncertain times, be too hasty in asking information of any one, […]
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Scott Monastery|volume=III|chapter=IV|pages=112–113|pageref=112|passage=The bounty so much delighted mine host, that he ran to fill the stirrup-cup (for which no charge was ever made) from a butt yet '''charier''' than that which he had pierced for the former stoup.}}
- Result:
- 1820 March, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, pages 112–113:
- The bounty so much delighted mine host, that he ran to fill the stirrup-cup (for which no charge was ever made) from a butt yet charier than that which he had pierced for the former stoup.