Template:RQ:Irving Alhambra/documentation
Usage
editThis template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Washington Irving's work The Alhambra: A Series of Tales and Sketches of the Moors and Spaniards (1st edition, 1832, 2 volumes). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at Google Books:
Parameters
editThe template takes the following parameters:
|1=
or|volume=
– mandatory: the volume number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, either|volume=I
or|volume=II
.|2=
or|chapter=
– the name of the chapter quoted from.|3=
or|page=
, or|pages=
– mandatory: the page or range of pages 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=iii–iv
. - 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 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:Irving Alhambra|volume=II|chapter=Legend of the Moor's Legacy|page=14|passage=[H]e trudged rapidly up the steep avenue of the Alhambra, singing as he went, and now and then bestowing a hearty '''thwack''' with a cudgel on the flanks of his donkey, either by way of cadence to the song, or refreshment to the animal; for dry blows serve in lieu for provender in Spain, for all beasts of burden.}}
; or{{RQ:Irving Alhambra|II|Legend of the Moor's Legacy|14|[H]e trudged rapidly up the steep avenue of the Alhambra, singing as he went, and now and then bestowing a hearty '''thwack''' with a cudgel on the flanks of his donkey, either by way of cadence to the song, or refreshment to the animal; for dry blows serve in lieu for provender in Spain, for all beasts of burden.}}
- Result:
- 1832, [Washington Irving], “Legend of the Moor’s Legacy”, in The Alhambra: A Series of Tales and Sketches of the Moors and Spaniards. […], volume II, Philadelphia, Pa.: [Henry Charles] Carey & [Isaac] Lea, →OCLC, page 14:
- [H]e trudged rapidly up the steep avenue of the Alhambra, singing as he went, and now and then bestowing a hearty thwack with a cudgel on the flanks of his donkey, either by way of cadence to the song, or refreshment to the animal; for dry blows serve in lieu for provender in Spain, for all beasts of burden.
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