Template talk:Mdash

Style

In Wikipedia, the Template: Mdash has no spaces around it. FloraC (talk) 14:32, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Interesting. Dave and I used em dashes surrounded by narrow non-breaking spaces throughout our Guide to RTT. But now that I'm looking into it again, I'm finding that it seems to be more globally common to use the open style (i.e. surrounded by spaces) with the shorter en dashes (width of an 'n'), not the wider em dashes (width of an 'm'). I do prefer the open style to the closed style (where "closed", naturally, means not surrounded by spaces), so I'll confer with Dave and see if he wants to switch us across the Guide to open en dashes. Thanks for pointing this out, Flora. --Cmloegcmluin (talk) 16:46, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Lack of utility

If not for the spaces around it, I don't think a template should be used for characters as simple as a dash. These are very accessible from the dropdown menu of the edit page. FloraC (talk) 14:32, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Agreed. And they're also easy to type after installing WinCompose or the equivalent for Mac (see here: https://en.xen.wiki/w/Dave_Keenan_%26_Douglas_Blumeyer%27s_guide_to_RTT:_conventions_for_names,_variables,_units,_and_notations#WinCompose). --Cmloegcmluin (talk) 16:46, 23 May 2024 (UTC)