Template:RQ:London Jerry/documentation
Usage
editThis template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Jack London's work Jerry of the Islands (1st edition, 1917). It can 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=
– the chapter number quoted from in uppercase Roman 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=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:London Jerry|chapter=VIII|page=115|passage=But he [Jerry, a dog] made no whimper. Nor did he wince or '''cringe''' to the blows. He bored straight in, striving, without avoiding a blow, to beat and meet the blow with his teeth.}}
; or{{RQ:London Jerry|VIII|115|But he [Jerry, a dog] made no whimper. Nor did he wince or '''cringe''' to the blows. He bored straight in, striving, without avoiding a blow, to beat and meet the blow with his teeth.}}
- Result:
- 1917 April, Jack London, chapter VIII, in Jerry of the Islands, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 115:
- But he [Jerry, a dog] made no whimper. Nor did he wince or cringe to the blows. He bored straight in, striving, without avoiding a blow, to beat and meet the blow with his teeth.
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