Template:RQ:Barnes Devil's Charter/documentation
Usage
editThis template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Barnabe Barnes's work The Devil's Charter (1st edition, 1607). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Google Books.
Parameters
editThe template takes the following parameters:
|1=
or|act=
– mandatory: the act number of the play quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, or|act=Prologus
or|act=Epilogus
:
Prologus | Act I | Act II | Act III | Act IV | Act V | Epilogus |
|2=
or|scene=
– mandatory: the scene number of the play quoted from in lowercase Roman numerals.|3=
or|url=
– mandatory in some cases: as the work is not paginated, the URL of the webpage of the online version of the work to link to must be manually specified, like this:|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mm8nAAAAMAAJ&pg=PT5
. This parameter must be specified for the template to link to the work.|4=
,|text=
, or|passage=
– the passage to be quoted.|5=
,|t=
, or|translation=
– a translation of the passage into contemporary English.|footer=
– a comment about the passage quoted, preferably formatted using the{{small}}
template.|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:Barnes Devil's Charter|act=IV|scene=iv|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mm8nAAAAMAAJ&pg=PT65|passage=''[[w:Cesare Borgia|Cæſar]]'' in this hath offered like himſelfe, / He '''proffereth''' to preſerue your towne vntouch'd: / Your goods, your wiues, your liues, your liberties.}}
; or{{RQ:Barnes Devil's Charter|IV|iv|https://books.google.com/books?id=Mm8nAAAAMAAJ&pg=PT65|''[[w:Cesare Borgia|Cæſar]]'' in this hath offered like himſelfe, / He '''proffereth''' to preſerue your towne vntouch'd: / Your goods, your wiues, your liues, your liberties.}}
- Result:
- 1607, [Barnabe Barnes], The Divils Charter: A Tragædie Conteining the Life and Death of Pope Alexander the Sixt. […], London: Printed by G[eorge] E[ld] for Iohn Wright, […], →OCLC, Act IV, scene iv:
- Cæſar in this hath offered like himſelfe, / He proffereth to preſerue your towne vntouch'd: / Your goods, your wiues, your liues, your liberties.