ଛାଞ୍ଚ:Quotation/doc

This is a documentation subpage for ଛାଞ୍ଚ:Quotation.
It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original ଛାଞ୍ଚ page.

This ଛାଞ୍ଚ employs intricate features of template syntax.

You are encouraged to familiarise yourself with its setup and parser functions before editing the template. If your edit causes unexpected problems, please undo it quickly, as this template may appear on a large number of pages.
You can conduct experiments, and should test all major changes, in either , the general template sandbox, or your user space before changing anything here.

Usage

You should not put quotation marks around the quote. This template acts as a pull quote to separate it from the text instead.

{{Quotation|quoted material|Author|Title|Publication}}

quoted material
— Author, Title, Publication

{{Quotation|quoted material|Author||skip italics to use '' '' for italics}}

quoted material
— Author, skip italics to use '' '' for italics

{{Quotation|quoted material|Author|Title|}}

quoted material
— Author, Title

{{Quotation|quoted material}}

quoted material

The equal sign (=)

If any of the parameters include an equal sign, this will make the template not recognize the parameter properly. To fix this the parameter needs to be prefixed with "1=", "2=", etc., depending on which parameter this applies to.

Template:Cquote – pull-quote between graphic quotation marks, page-wide
Template:Epigraph – quote without border, page-wide, normal-sized attribution
Template:Quotation – quote with border, page-wide
Template:Quote – quote without border, page-wide, smaller-sized attribution
Template:Quote box – quote with border, in a reduced floating box
Template:Rquote – pull-quote between graphic quotation marks, in a reduced floating area

See also Category: Quotation templates – more templates