Template:RQ:Cather Song of the Lark/documentation
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Usage
This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Willa Cather's work The Song of the Lark (1st edition, 1915; and new edition, 1937 (1941 printing)). It may be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:
- 1st edition (1915).
- New edition (1937; 1941 printing) – contains revisions by the author.
Parameters
The template takes the following parameters:
|edition=– mandatory in some cases: if quoting from the new edition (1937; 1941 printing), specify|edition=new. If this parameter is omitted, the template defaults to the 1st edition (1915).|1=or|chapter=– the chapter number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals. The chapter number starts from I in each part of the work.|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=10–11or|pages=v–vi. - 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 part number (I–VI) of the work quoted from, and to link to an online version of the work.
In the new edition, specify the page numbers of the preface as
|page=vto|page=vi.
|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
- 1st edition (1915)
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Cather Song of the Lark|chapter=XVI|page=112|passage=I don't think your musical friend is much on the grub-box. Has to keep her hands white to '''tickle the ivories'''.}}; or{{RQ:Cather Song of the Lark|XVI|112|I don't think your musical friend is much on the grub-box. Has to keep her hands white to '''tickle the ivories'''.}}
- Result:
- 1915 October, Willa Sibert Cather, chapter XVI, in The Song of the Lark, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company ">…], →OCLC, part I (Friends of Childhood), page 112:
- I don't think your musical friend is much on the grub-box. Has to keep her hands white to tickle the ivories.
- New edition (1937; 1941 printing)
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Cather Song of the Lark|edition=new|chapter=Preface|page=v|passage=Success is never so interesting as struggle—not even to the successful, not even to the most '''mercenary''' forms of ambition.}} - Result:
- 1932 July 16 (date written), Willa Cather, “Preface”, in The Song of the Lark, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company ">…], published February 1941, →OCLC, page v:
- Success is never so interesting as struggle—not even to the successful, not even to the most mercenary forms of ambition.
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