Template:RQ:Robertson America/documentation
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Usage
This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote William Robertson's work The History of America (1st edition, 1777, 2 volumes). The template can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at Google Books:
- Volume I (books I–IV; archived at the Internet Archive).
- Volume II (books V–VIII; archived at the Internet Archive).
Parameters
The template takes the following parameters:
|1=or|volume=– mandatory: the volume number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, either|volume=Ior|volume=II.|note=– if quoting from a note in one of the "Notes and Illustrations" sections, use this parameter to specify the note number in uppercase Roman numerals.|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. 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=10–11or|pages=x–xi. - 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 an 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:Robertson America|volume=I|note=LIV|page=470|passage=Sometimes they kill ſome game, ſometimes they catch fiſh, but in ſuch ſmall quantities, that their hunger is ſo extreme as compels them to eat ſpiders, the eggs of ants, vvorms, lizards, ſerpents, a kind of '''unctuous''' earth, and I am perſuaded, that if in this country there vvere any ſtones, they vvould ſvvallovv theſe.}}; or{{RQ:Robertson America|I|note=LIV|470|Sometimes they kill ſome game, ſometimes they catch fiſh, but in ſuch ſmall quantities, that their hunger is ſo extreme as compels them to eat ſpiders, the eggs of ants, vvorms, lizards, ſerpents, a kind of '''unctuous''' earth, and I am perſuaded, that if in this country there vvere any ſtones, they vvould ſvvallovv theſe.}}
- Result:
- 1777, William Robertson, “Notes and Illustrations. Note LIV.”, in The History of America, volume I, London: W Strahan; T Cadell, ; Edinburgh: J Balfour, →OCLC, page 470:
- Sometimes they kill ſome game, ſometimes they catch fiſh, but in ſuch ſmall quantities, that their hunger is ſo extreme as compels them to eat ſpiders, the eggs of ants, vvorms, lizards, ſerpents, a kind of unctuous earth, and I am perſuaded, that if in this country there vvere any ſtones, they vvould ſvvallovv theſe.
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