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Creates a spaced parenthesis so as to avoid text collisions, especially between italicized content and a closing non-italicized round bracket:
It has the short but not entirely intuitive short {{--)}} because both {{)}} and {{-)}} were already used by other templates.
Usage
Example: Template:Blockindent produces: Template:Blockindent instead of: Template:Blockindent
See also
- {{'}} (Template:Apostrophe) – for use with adjacent italic markup
- {{'s}} – for use immediately following italic markup
- {{`}} – for use not immediately following italic markup
- {{′}} (Template:Prime)
- {{''}}
- {{' "}} (Template:Single+double)
- {{" '}} (Template:Double+single)
- {{' '}} (Template:Single+single)
- {{" ' "}} (Template:Double+single+double)
- {{' " '}} (Template:Single+double+single)
- {{-"}} (Template:Space+double)
- {{"-}} (Template:Double+space)
- {{-'}} (Template:Space+single)
- {{'-}} (Template:Single+space)
- {{--)}} (Template:Space+parenthesis) (it's
--)because)and-)were already used by other templates) - {{(-}} (Template:Parenthesis+space) (using
(--also works, for consistency with the one above)