Template talk:Thin space

Changed   to {{unicode| }}

The HTML character entity   does not display correctly in the Opera browser. I used {{unicode}} to workaround the problem. I could have used {{thinsp}} but that would have increased the "post-expand include size". –droll [chat] 01:23, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

@Droll: Is this fixed now? Opera team here says the bug (marked as "CORE-28671") is fixed. A drupal forum suggested it depends on the font used. Editing templates, don't want to mess us people's browsers. meteor_sandwich_yum (talk) 07:54, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

This template is not being used and I'll probably ask that it be deleted. I posted the above message some time ago and I don't remember what it was all about. –droll [chat] 08:07, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, no real harm in keeping things where they're at; if someone has a problem I'm sure they'll bring it up on talk pages. meteor_sandwich_yum (talk) 08:41, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Requested move 24 May 2021

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Merged with {{Thin space}}. I'm going to perform page swap (but not talk pages), so that Tholme's final template ends up at {{Thin space}} per naming conventions, but has the current functionality of {{Thinspace}} (to be redirected here). If I screw something up, well, that would be your fault for not listing this at WP:TFD. No such user (talk) 09:12, 22 July 2021 (UTC)

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Template:Thinspace → Template:Thin space separated entries – Having two different templates with the only difference in name being different punctuation is highly confusing as seen at the recent TfD nomination. It is also listed as a bad practice at WP:TPN. The suggested name better reflects what this template does following the same naming convention as {{Br separated entries}} and {{Space separated entries}}. The current name should be turned into a redirect to {{Thin space}} after updating transclusions. --Trialpears (talk) 22:45, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

@DeNoel, BrownHairedGirl, and Pppery: from the TfD. --Trialpears (talk) 22:46, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Support move Makes sense to me. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 23:31, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

• Abstain comment: My suggestion was differentiating Template:Thin space from Template:Thinspace somewhere near the top of each doc (see discussion at Template talk:Thin space#Proposed redirect from Thinspace), not moving the template other than the proposed merge. I have no objections to your proposal, though I think a better name can be found (no thoughts on what it might be). Thank you for inviting me to weigh in. — Christopher, Sheridan, OR (talk) 02:59, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
• Support move for consistency with templates that perform similar functions. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:14, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

• Support move and redirect. Indeed, having templates with such a small difference is bad practice. Gonnym (talk) 08:32, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
• Support some move. The current title is unacceptably similar to another template with a different function, so a rename is needed. Thanks to @Trialpears for picking up on my commnet[1] at TFD, and making this proposal. I am not thrilled with the verbosity of the current nameproposed new name, but I can't think of anything shorter which retains such descriptive clarity. The best I can think of is my ALT1 below. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:01, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
• ALT1 rename to Template:Multi thinspace, which is shorter but less clear. Not sure whether I prefer this, but it's an attempt to find a shorter rename, and may spark other idea. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:02, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
  • Merge. Changing my !vote now that clever work by @Tholme makes merge a viable option. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:54, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
• Merge/Redirect I have edited {{Thinspace}} so that this template now will function like {{Thin space}} does without arguments or with one argument. With two or more parameters it has the same function as before. Then there is no need for two templates and we can just redirect one template to the other. Tholme (talk) 18:53, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
• Merge/Redirect. Given changes by Tholme. PaleAqua (talk) 17:40, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

• Looks reasonable, support move but prefer merge/redirect per @Tholme. Tol | talk | contribs 04:29, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Problems with =

I encountered problems in using this template with the symbol =, e.g. {{thinspace|x|=|5}} renders x 5 instead of x = 5. Is there a way to work around this?--Carnby (talk) 05:59, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Generally, you can't use = in parameter values, because they are operators that tell the template what the parameter value is. Try this:
{{thinspace|x|{{=}}|5}} → x = 5 – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:01, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Thanks.--Carnby (talk) 07:33, 3 October 2021 (UTC)