Template:RQ:Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library
1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN:
- The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library/documentation. [edit]
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Usage edit
This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote from Alan Hollinghurst's work The Swimming-Pool Library (paperback edition, 1988; and 1998 edition); the 1st edition (London: Chatto & Windus, 1988; →ISBN) is not currently available online. The template can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:
- Paperback edition (1988).
- 1998 edition.
Parameters edit
The template takes the following parameters:
|year=– mandatory in some cases: if quoting from the 1998 edition, specify|year=1998. If this parameter is omitted, the template defaults to the paperback edition (1988).|1=or|chapter=– the chapter number quoted from in Arabic numerals.|2=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.
|3=,|text=, or|passage=– the passage to be quoted.|footer=– a comment on the passage quoted.|brackets=– use|brackets=onto 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
- Paperback edition (1988)
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library|chapter=7|page=143|passage=I insisted on how his opinion mattered, and developed and construed his platitudes into '''aperçus''' he was far from entertaining himself.}}; or{{RQ:Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library|7|143|I insisted on how his opinion mattered, and developed and construed his platitudes into '''aperçus''' he was far from entertaining himself.}}
- Result:
- 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 7, in The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 143:
- I insisted on how his opinion mattered, and developed and construed his platitudes into aperçus he was far from entertaining himself.
- 1998 edition
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library|year=1998|chapter=7|page=142|passage=It was a narrow, gravelled island we had to lie on, guarded by glazed brick chimneys and, running along the sides, a prickly little gothic fence of iron '''finials''' and terracotta quatrefoils.}} - Result:
- 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 7, in The Swimming-Pool Library, London: Vintage, published 1998, →ISBN, page 142:
- It was a narrow, gravelled island we had to lie on, guarded by glazed brick chimneys and, running along the sides, a prickly little gothic fence of iron finials and terracotta quatrefoils.
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