Template:RQ:Scott Old Mortality/documentation

Usage

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Walter Scott's work Old Mortality, first published in Tales of My Landlord (1st series, 1st edition, 1816, 4 volumes). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:

• Volume II.
• Volume III.
• Volume IV.

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |volume= – mandatory: the volume number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, from |volume=II to |volume=IV.
• |2= or |chapter= – the chapter number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals. The chapter numbers start from I in each volume.
• |3= 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).

This parameter must be specified to have the template link to the online version of the work.

• |4=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
• |5=, |t=, or |translation= – a translation of the passage into contemporary English.
• |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.
• |termlang= – by default, the template categorizes entries on which it is placed into Category:English terms with quotations. To have the template categorize an entry into Category:Scots terms with quotations instead, specify |termlang=sco.

Examples

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Scott Old Mortality|volume=II|chapter=V|page=104|passage=[M]ind ye dinna let the candle '''sweal''' as ye gang alang the wainscot parlour, and haud a' the house scouring to get out the grease again.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Scott Old Mortality|II|V|104|[M]ind ye dinna let the candle '''sweal''' as ye gang alang the wainscot parlour, and haud a' the house scouring to get out the grease again.}}
• Result:
  • 1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter V, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume II (Old Mortality), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 104:

    [M]ind ye dinna let the candle sweal as ye gang alang the wainscot parlour, and haud a' the house scouring to get out the grease again.

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Scott Old Mortality|volume=III|chapter=IV|pages=85–86|pageref=85|passage=Tarry, tarry, ye wha were aye sae '''blythe''' to be at the meetings of the saints, and wad ride every muir in Scotland to find a conventicle.}}
• Result:
  • 1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume III (Old Mortality), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, pages 85–86:

    Tarry, tarry, ye wha were aye sae blythe to be at the meetings of the saints, and wad ride every muir in Scotland to find a conventicle.

Technical information

This template relies on {{RQ:Scott Tales of My Landlord 1}}.