Template talk:Spaces

message: I don't think we need to be using Template:Loop here. Most of the uses of this template appear to use very small values for the first parameter. I'd like to add a cat here to catch any usages greater than X (maybe 5? 10?) to see what the current situation looks like. --- RockMFR 03:55, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: So far, nearly all of the uses > 25 are from a single user's messages on user talk pages. --- RockMFR 03:08, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Efficiency 

message: Template  has a similar (or the same) purpose as this template, but uses an ugly method. Could  better serve as a redirect to this template? --Götz (talk) 19:02, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Similar template 

message: I agree with User:EEng (above) that the naming here is not ideal.  I suggest that  and  (and  via redirection to ) be wrappers of this template which do what they say, I.E. create normal and non-breaking space(s) by default.  The default here should be normal spaces, per the name, but ideally a survey of actual in-article uses should be done before that behaviour is changed. 
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:29, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: {space}/{spaces} apparently has thousands of invocations -- direct invocations under that name. I think it's hopeless. EEng 18:46, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming, redux.

message: # is a redirect here, but it is not documented.
# The documentation is confusing about which of  and  is preferable. IMO, a template is always preferable, because templates have documentation.
--50.53.60.172 (talk) 16:56, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  {{tl|Space}} not documented 

message: I wonder whether it would be a good idea to add a parameter to control the type of space produced.  It would be good to have some way of producing figure spaces for alignment of numbers in tables.  Adding this functionality to this template would be easy and probably a better option than creating a whole new template which does an almost identical thing.  A proliferation of little templates doing little jobs isn't that useful.  Whilst we're at it, the almost never used  could be merged here (possibly along with  and  but they work a bit differently).  Another thing, at least the name wouldn't seem so idiotic if the template produced various types of space. Jimp 18:26, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Different types of spaces 

message: I was wondering why style="white-space:nowrap;" has been used around  . Can someone give an example of a situation that it makes difference? Dalba 17 Ordibehesht 1394/ 10:26, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usage of white-space:nowrap style for nbsp 

message: Consider adding parameter 'nnbsp' or 'narrow' to get a narrow non-breaking space as seen here, Non-breaking space#Width variation. One usage is around punctuation which should not be separated from a word. As is mentioned here Quotation mark#French for one instance. Shenme (talk) 01:38, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: No need for parameters and stuff. Just create a new template. EEng 03:17, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  The template already has a parameter for just that (fig|en|em|thin|hair), it's just about adding options for more whitespace characters. Adding cases to switch statements is very cheap and improves user experience, because authors do not have to remember a single code exactly. (I still may have gone overboard below, though.) — Christoph Päper 22:58, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: (Code moved to Template:Spaces/sandbox) — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:11, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

text:  PS: To allow redirect templates to opt-out of non-breaking behavior (class="nowrap"), I have also added a class parameter, which authors should never use in article space. — Christoph Päper 23:07, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not quite sure what you are trying to do here, but I don't think it is a good idea to put in code unless it is actually likely to be used. You admit you may have gone overboard ;) Which of these do you think will be useful? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:13, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Consider adding narrow no-break space 

message: Hello. Is there a way to make the visual editor thumbnail for this template different/smaller? Right now it is big, and in my opinion makes text hard to read. Screenshot. Maybe we could use Template Data to do this. I'd be willing to make an image file (png, svg) if needed. Thank you. –Novem Linguae (talk) 11:48, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: This seems to have been resolved; the template appears as its actual size in VE now. User:GKFXtalk 18:44, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Visual editor thumbnail too big 

message: Once upon a time, I apparently considered to propose extended functionality for this template and added the /char subpage with additional characters and mnemonics (LaTeX, MathML, HTML, Unicode) for them. This page will probably be deleted soon, but maybe it would indeed be a good idea to add some features to this template. — Christoph Päper 17:12, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Wouldn't this just be replacing the doubled up switch structure with two calls to the subtemplate, be a simple implementation? At RfD I've suggest a merge or just calling the subtemplate. -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) 18:05, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, I think getting rid of the duplicate switch was part of my original intention. Since we don't have variable assignment in templates, using a subpage is the best maintainable approach. — Christoph Päper 07:09, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  More space characters 

message: Description of suggested change:
Replace every {nbsp} with {nbs} site-wide! Eh? --2601:840:8400:7970:11DD:8BF0:96F7:696F (talk) 17:59, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Why? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:31, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

text: this would need a much bigger explanation. — xaosflux Talk 23:07, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why not{{nbs}}... 

message: A protected redirect, Template:Space needs redirect category (rcat) templates added.  Please modify it as follows:
* from this:
#REDIRECT Template:Spaces

* to this:
#REDIRECT Template:Spaces

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The  template is used to sort redirects into one or more categories.  When  and/or  suffice, the Redirect category shell template will detect the protection level(s) and categorize the redirect automatically.  (Also, the categories will be automatically removed or changed when and if protection is lifted, raised or lowered.)  Thank you in advance! P.I. Ellsworth , ed. put'er there 01:14, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: — xaosflux Talk 01:26, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you very much, xaosflux! P.I. Ellsworth , ed. put'er there 01:37, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fully protected edit request on 14 February 2023