Template talk:Indent

message: The templates  &  were created to align text in places where wikitables seemed excessive, such as within a bullet-entry:
Coding:
: * America has several car manufacturers, making cars:GM, Ford & Chrysler-Dodge- The "Big 3"Toyota (world's biggest)- In TennesseeMercedes (German)- Also in Alabama & other states.There are many other auto makers in America.
Result:
* America has several car manufacturers, making cars:GM, Ford & Chrysler-Dodge- The "Big 3"Toyota (world's biggest)- In TennesseeMercedes (German)- Also in Alabama & other states.There are many other auto makers in America.
Note that the spacing doesn't always align evenly, due to template  generating a mixture of en-size & em-size spaces, so instead use template  to generate equal-size spaces:
Coding: * America has manufacturers:GM, Ford & Chrysler-Dodge- "Big 3"Toyota (world's biggest)- TennesseeMercedes (German)- Also.
Result:
* America has manufacturers:GM, Ford & Chrysler-Dodge- "Big 3"Toyota (world's biggest)- TennesseeMercedes (German)- Also.
Using  allowed the Mercedes-text to better align with the others. In general, usage of  requires more effort than  to align the spacing. -Wikid77 (talk) 10:46, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Demonstration: Table in a bullet

message: I ported this over from wikisource. Seems useful for when a wikitable is contraindicated, yet one wants to line up several short columns of material. That makes the assumption that it can be used in-line, and does not generate a  linefeed. (I'm acting boldly, as it displays poorly as you can see below! <B>Fra</B>nkB (User:Fabartus at 21:33, 26 May 2006)
* 03-May-2009: After dealing with the newline issue, User:Fabartus created  in June 2006, to allow the in-line spacing needed to align text outside a wikitable. After that, quick templates were added for: , , ,  plus  & . -Wikid77 (talk) 09:46, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Genesis History

message: If the only difference between this and the template space is the line break, then replace the current code with . Jɪmp 07:15, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: If it's just <nowiki><br></nowiki>{{tl|space}}

message: 03-May-09: I have fixed the 3-year coding bug in Template:Indent that caused numbered or asterisk-bullet lines to double-space, and caused auto-numbering to reset to 1. The bug was introduced in the revision of 16:09 on August 22, 2006.  The problem was fixed by adding an HTML comment to prevent the implicit newline after the ending tag "</includeonly>" as follows:
{{#switch: 
The problem was fixed (after nearly 3 years) as version Ver F.1 of the  template on English Wikipedia. -Wikid77 (talk) 08:50, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Fixed double-space bug from August 2006

message: 03-May-2009: I have added subheaders above as "Topics from 2006" (etc.) to emphasize the dates of topics in the talk-page. Older topics might still apply, but using the year headers helps to focus on more current issues as well. Afterward, I dated/named unsigned comments.
Then I added "Talk-page subpages" beside the TOC. -Wikid77 (talk) 09:46, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Retrofit talk-page year headers/subpages

message: I have created the talk-page archive subpage: Template_talk:Indent/Archive_1 for topics from 2006 to May 2007. -Wikid77 (talk) 09:46, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Archived old topics to Archive_1

message: Hey, nerd passing by and saw this (same as below):
I did my best to clarify it here, but may have introduced more confusion:
I took a peek at the module, looked up en and em spaces, looked at the talk pages of all the different modules, and began working on this.
Honestly, I question whether people who use this template need to know this stuff. Should I just take this out, or archive this, or something? meteor_sandwich_yum (talk) 05:32, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attempting to clarify the confusing part 

message: The template's documentation states that  matches indentation of a colon-shift (":"), but on my browser (firefox 57.0), this results in a bigger indentation. The value that seems to match the colon-shift is not 5, but 3. Any thoughts as to why this might be happening? – Uanfala (talk) 20:04, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  I believe this has to do with the way Module:Indent is implemented in code vs how ":" is implemented in code and how your browser treats those underlying implementations compared to how other browsers do. I believe the module indentations are implemented in terms of   and &emsp but regarding ":", I have no clue.  Maybe try asking at WT:LUA? Someone there should know more. - Vanstrat ((🗼)) 07:36, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Equivalence to ":"