Template:Spaced en dash space

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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:

Salt – Pepper – Curry – Saffron

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}}

Dot sizes

See also