Template:Gaps

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This template uses Lua:

Module:Gaps (sandbox)

Template:Gaps outputs its unnamed arguments in order, applying the margin-left: 0.25em CSS rule to all but the first, so that there will be gaps of 0.25 em between the arguments. The whole output has the white-space: nowrap rule so that it will not be broken across several lines.

It supports up to twenty unnamed arguments. In addition, it supports the base and e arguments which can be used for numbers in exponential notation. The base will be assumed to be 10 unless otherwise specified; a hyphen-minus "-" in the exponent will be automatically substituted by a minus sign "−". It also supports the arguments lhs and u for putting left-hand sides and units within the non-breaking span (see examples below).

See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) § Delimiting (grouping of digits) for information about where to put the gaps in numbers.

Usage

Input	Output
`{{gaps\|−2.002\|319\|304\|3622\|(15)}}`	−2.0023193043622(15)
`{{gaps\|299\|792\|458\|u=m/s}}`	299792458 m/s
`{{gaps\|lhs=π\|3.14159\|26535\|89793\|23846\|26433\|83279\|...}}`	π = 3.141592653589793238462643383279...
`{{gaps\|P.\|A.\|M.}} Dirac`	P.A.M. Dirac
`{{nowrap\|1={{gaps\|sin\|2''φ''}} = 2 {{gaps\|sin\|''φ''}} {{gaps\|cos\|''φ''}}}}`	sin2φ = 2 sinφ cosφ
`"She disputed his statement that 'Voltaire never said "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say {{gaps\|it."\|'\|"}}`	"She disputed his statement that 'Voltaire never said "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."'"
`{{gaps\|1.602\|176\|487\|(40)\|e=-19\|u=C}}`	1.602176487(40)×10^⁻¹⁹ C
`64 MiB ({{gaps\|64\|base=2\|e=20}} bytes)`	64 MiB (64×2^²⁰ bytes)
`{{gaps\|A\|B\|C\|gap=10em}}`	ABC

Some of these examples are technically correct as to behavior of this template, but not recommendable uses:

MOS:INITIALS requires literal spaces between human initials (except in unusual circumstances). Thus, use P. A. M. Dirac. To prevent line wrapping within initials, use either P. A. M. Dirac or {{nobr|P. A. M.}} Dirac. The latter should not be used within a citation template.
For spacing-apart of contiguous quotation marks, as in the Voltaire example, we have simpler dedicated templates: ... right to say it.{{"'"}}

Caveats

Template:Gaps allows any number of parameters, and displays the gaps by setting the left margin space of each group. The gaps are not actual spaces, so a copy/paste of the text is treated as connected, consecutive text. Although the text, as displayed, is consecutive as on-screen text, {gaps} for a number cannot be used in a calculation because the internal markup contains the invisible <span> tags which would be invalid text in typical numeric processing.

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Non-breaking space characters	{{figure space}} {{hair space}} {{narrow no-break space}} {{five non-breaking spaces}} {{ns}} {{quad}} {{spaces}} {{thin space}} {{word joiner}} {{zero width joiner}}
Breaking space characters	{{sp}} {{zero width space}}
Non-character spaces	{{gaps}} {{indent 5}} {{indent}} {{pad}} {{two pixel space}}

Template:Gaps

Usage

Caveats

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