Template:RQ:Ray Low-countries/documentation
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Usage
This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote John Ray's work Observations Topographical, Moral, & Physiological; Made in a Journey through part of the Low-countries, Germany, Italy, and France (1st edition, 1673). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.
Parameters
The template takes the following parameters:
|author=– the name of an author of a chapter of the work other than John Ray.|1=or|chapter=– the name of the chapter quoted from. If quoting from one of the chapters indicated in the second column of the following table, give the parameter the value indicated in the first column:
| Parameter value | Result |
|---|---|
| Epistle Dedicatory | To His Honoured Friend Philip Skippon, Esq |
| Preface | The Preface |
| Stirpium | Catalogus stirpium in exteris regionibus a nobis observatarum, quæ vel non omnino vel parcè admodum in Anglia sponte proveniunt |
- As the above chapters in the 1st edition are unpaginated, use
|2=or|page=to specify the "page number" assigned by the Internet Archive to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URL ishttps://archive.org/details/observationstopo00rayj/page/n10/mode/1up, specify|page=10.
|entry=– if quoting from an entry in the "Catalogus stirpium", use this parameter to specify the name of the entry quoted. If quoting from the "Præfatio", specify|entry=Praefatio. As it is unpaginated, use|2=or|page=to specify the "page number" assigned by the Internet Archive to the URL of the webpage to be linked to as described above.|year=– the year when the chapter quoted from is not 1673, the year of publication of the entire work.|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 specify the page number that the template should link 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
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Ray Low-countries|chapter=Of Venice|page=184|passage=irſt of all among themſelves of the ancienteſt they chuſe three heads or chiefs vvhich they call '''''Priors'''''; and alſo of the youngeſt among them they chuſe tvvo vvho perform the office of Secretaries. The '''Priors''' ſit dovvn, having before them a table upon vvhich are placed tvvo balloting boxes of that ſort that are uſed in the Great Council; in one of vvhich are put 40 balls, marked vvith a certain mark, that no deceit may be uſed. The reſt of the 41 ſit alſo dovvn, each vvhere he pleaſes. {{...}} Then they are called one by one before the three '''Priors''', and each one vvrites in his Schedule the name of him vvhom he vvould have to be Duke, and leaves it upon the table.}}; or{{RQ:Ray Low-countries|Of Venice|184|irſt of all among themſelves of the ancienteſt they chuſe three heads or chiefs vvhich they call '''''Priors'''''; and alſo of the youngeſt among them they chuſe tvvo vvho perform the office of Secretaries. The '''Priors''' ſit dovvn, having before them a table upon vvhich are placed tvvo balloting boxes of that ſort that are uſed in the Great Council; in one of vvhich are put 40 balls, marked vvith a certain mark, that no deceit may be uſed. The reſt of the 41 ſit alſo dovvn, each vvhere he pleaſes. {{...}} Then they are called one by one before the three '''Priors''', and each one vvrites in his Schedule the name of him vvhom he vvould have to be Duke, and leaves it upon the table.}}
- Result:
- 1673, John Ray, “Of Venice”, in Observations Topographical, Moral, & Physiological; Made in a Journey through part of the Low-countries, Germany, Italy, and France: , London: John Martyn, printer to the Royal Society, , →OCLC, page 184:
- [F]irſt of all among themſelves of the ancienteſt they chuſe three heads or chiefs vvhich they call Priors; and alſo of the youngeſt among them they chuſe tvvo vvho perform the office of Secretaries. The Priors ſit dovvn, having before them a table upon vvhich are placed tvvo balloting boxes of that ſort that are uſed in the Great Council; in one of vvhich are put 40 balls, marked vvith a certain mark, that no deceit may be uſed. The reſt of the 41 ſit alſo dovvn, each vvhere he pleaſes. […] Then they are called one by one before the three Priors, and each one vvrites in his Schedule the name of him vvhom he vvould have to be Duke, and leaves it upon the table.
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