Template:RQ:Orwell Burmese Days/documentation
Usage
editThis template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from George Orwell's Burmese Days (1st edition, 1934), which is not currently available online. The template can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Project Gutenberg Australia.
Parameters
editThe template takes the following parameters:
|1=
or|chapter=
– the chapter number quoted from in Arabic numerals.|2=
,|text=
, or|passage=
– a passage quoted from the work.|format=
– to link to an online version of the work at Project Gutenberg Australia, specify|format=PGA
.|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:Orwell Burmese Days|format=PGA|chapter=23|passage='Butler! Send my rickshaw round to the front at once! To the station, jaldi!' she added as the rickshaw-man appeared, and, having settled herself in the rickshaw, poked him in the back with the '''ferrule''' of her umbrella to start him.}}
; or{{RQ:Orwell Burmese Days|format=PGA|23|'Butler! Send my rickshaw round to the front at once! To the station, jaldi!' she added as the rickshaw-man appeared, and, having settled herself in the rickshaw, poked him in the back with the '''ferrule''' of her umbrella to start him.}}
- Result:
- 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC; republished as chapter 23, in Burmese Days (ebook no. 0200051h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, November 2015:
- 'Butler! Send my rickshaw round to the front at once! To the station, jaldi!' she added as the rickshaw-man appeared, and, having settled herself in the rickshaw, poked him in the back with the ferrule of her umbrella to start him.
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