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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),
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.
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