Template:RQ:Cather My Antonia/documentation
Usage
editThis template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Willa Cather's work My Ántonia (1st edition, 1918). It may be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.
Parameters
editThe template takes the following parameters:
|1=
or|chapter=
–- If quoting from the introduction, specify
|chapter=Introduction
. - If quoting from the main part of the work, specify the chapter number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals. The chapter number starts from I in each book.
- If quoting from the introduction, specify
|2=
or|page=
, or|pages=
– mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from in Arabic or lowercase Roman numerals, as the case may be. 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
or|pages=x–xi
. - 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 page number of the range with an en dash, like this:
- This information must be specified to have the template determine the book number (I–V) 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
edit- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Cather My Antonia|chapter=I|page=8|passage=The wagon jolted on, carrying me I knew not '''whither'''.}}
; or{{RQ:Cather My Antonia|I|8|The wagon jolted on, carrying me I knew not '''whither'''.}}
- Result:
- 1918 September, Willa Sibert Cather, chapter I, in My Ántonia, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], →OCLC, book I (The Shimerdas), page 8:
- The wagon jolted on, carrying me I knew not whither.
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