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This is the other '''spaced en dash''' template; it renders like this (without the quotation marks): "&nbsp;–&#32;". 
It is intended to be [[WP:Substitution|substituted]] and uses a [[Unicode]] en-dash character rather than the [[ASCII]] equivalent '''{{code|&ndash;}}''', and renders the following: '''{{code|&nbsp;–&#32;}}''' i.e. a [[non-breaking space]], an [[Dash#En dash|en dash]] and a normal space that will line-break and collapse.

This template has been designed as an alternative to {{tl|Spaced ndash}}, which performs the same function but when substituted is less easily read and edited in the wikicode editing window. {{tl|Spd}} is thus preferable to the older, [[ASCII]]-based template mentioned when substituted, in a similar way to {{tl|mdash}}.

===Example===
*<nowiki>I walked past a red car{{subst:Spd}}that was parked next to a blue car{{subst:Spd}}when I fell over.</nowiki>
will render as:
**I walked past a red car&nbsp;–&#32;that was parked next to a blue car&nbsp;–&#32;when I fell over.
This will appear in the editing window as:
*{{code|I walked past a red car&nbsp;–&#32;that was parked next to a blue car&nbsp;–&#32;when I fell over.}}

== See also ==
* {{tn|·}}, which produces a spaced bold [[interpunct]] ("middot"): "{{·}}"
* {{tn|•}}, which produces a spaced bullet-point: "{{•}}"
* {{tn|\}}, which produces a spaced (forward-)slash: "{{\}}"
* {{tl|en dash}}, which produces an (unspaced) [[en dash]].
* {{tl|em dash}}, which produces an (unspaced) [[em dash]].
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