வார்ப்புரு:Longdash

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In older modern novels it is common for names of people and places, and sometimes dates, to be abbreviated by use of a very long dash. The purpose of these dashes was to provide anonymity without losing veracity — as if to say that the writer is able to provide the name/date but has chosen to censor themselves. In more informal writing (such as letters) it was also sometimes used as an abbreviation for a name already provided in full.

A very long dash can be rendered in some fonts by a sequence of mdashes, but there is no guarantee that these will render as a single connected dash in every font; just because it looks like a single connected dash on your screen, doesn't mean it will everywhere.

This template provides a long dash contructed using the Unicode BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT HORIZONTAL (U+2500) character applied via the {{Unicode}} template and thus, is more-or-less guaranteed to render as a single connected dash on all screens.

Usage

"I do not as yet see my way to going as far as Lord B{{longdash}}."

"I do not as yet see my way to going as far as Lord B──."

See also

• To hyphenate words, use a hyphen; this is available on nearly all keyboards.
• To express from-to ranges, such as "January–February 1886", use an ndash; see {{Ndash}}
• For dashes that divide sentence fragments, use an mdash. {{--}} renders an mdash without surrounding hairspaces.
• For a variable-length mid-height bar consider {{Bar}}.