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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.
Example:
produces:
instead of:
--)
because )
and -)
were already used by other templates)(--
also works, for consistency with the one above)