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This is the spaced en dash space template; it renders text in the same format as the HTML markup sequence – . The resulting text is three characters in a line in the following order:
- a non-breaking space (which cannot become a line break and will not collapse together with any normal spaces that come before the template),
- a short type of dash called an en dash), and
- one more of the same kind of non-breaking space (which will behave just like the first).
The recommended usage is to use no space before the template and no space after the template, like this:
- [[Salt]]{{snds}}[[Black pepper|Pepper]]{{snds}}[[Curry]]{{snds}}[[Saffron]]
- This will render one space on each side of the dash, and a line break will not come before one of the dashes nor will a line break come after one of the dashes as rendered here:
The template is used to connect words with an en dash but with a non-breaking space before and after the en dash. Others uses of the template "spaced en dash space" are within other templates, tables, lists, and similar things to provide a separator between items. It is also to be consistent so that the article editor can use their choice of {{bull}}, {{dot}}, {{middot}}, {{spaced en dash}}, or {{spaced en dash space}} and not have to insert the • , · , · , – , or – symbols; they can use any of these templates as a simple macro. See above and right for shortcuts editors can use to easily implement this template in articles.
Dot sizes
| · | middot |
| · | bold {{middot}} |
| • | small bullet |
| • | {{bullet}} |
| • | bold bullet |
| – | {{en dash}} |
| — | {{em dash}} |
See also
- {{·}}, which produces a spaced bold interpunct aka middot: " · "
- {{•}}, which produces a spaced bullet point: " • "
- {{\}}, which produces a spaced forward slash: " / "
- {{en dash}}, which produces an unspaced en dash
- {{spaced en dash}}, which produces a non-breaking space, followed by an en dash, and then a breaking space
- {{em dash}}, which produces an unspaced em dash
- Non-breaking space
