Template:RQ:Twain Christian Science/documentation

Usage

This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Mark Twain's work Christian Science (1st collected edition, 1907). 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 |chapter= –
  • If quoting from the preface, specify |chapter=Preface.
  • If quoting from the main part of the work, the chapter number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals. The chapter number starts from I in each book.
• |2= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory: 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 part of the work 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:Twain Christian Science|chapter=III|page=28|passage=He [the horse-doctor] made up a bucket of bran-mash, and said a dipperful of it every two hours, alternated with a '''drench''' with turpentine and axle-grease in it, would either knock my ailments out of men in twenty-four hours, or so interest me in other ways as to make me forget they were on the premises. {{...}} I took up the Christian Science book and read half of it, then took a dipperful of '''drench''' and read the other half.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Twain Christian Science|III|28|He [the horse-doctor] made up a bucket of bran-mash, and said a dipperful of it every two hours, alternated with a '''drench''' with turpentine and axle-grease in it, would either knock my ailments out of men in twenty-four hours, or so interest me in other ways as to make me forget they were on the premises. {{...}} I took up the Christian Science book and read half of it, then took a dipperful of '''drench''' and read the other half.}}
• Result:
  • 1899 October, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter III, in Christian Science […], New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers, published February 1907, →OCLC, book I, page 28:

    He [the horse-doctor] made up a bucket of bran-mash, and said a dipperful of it every two hours, alternated with a drench with turpentine and axle-grease in it, would either knock my ailments out of men in twenty-four hours, or so interest me in other ways as to make me forget they were on the premises. […] I took up the Christian Science book and read half of it, then took a dipperful of drench and read the other half.