This template may be used to enclose text between two parentheses. It adds padding (of width 0.1 em) on each side inside the parentheses.

Usage

{{Pars|s=200%|Content-inside-parentheses}}(Content-inside-parentheses)

  1. Places ( ) around the content: (Content-inside-parentheses)
  2. Scales their size to 200%
    • You can also use the units px, em, pt, or %
  3. Adds small spaces immediately after ( and immediately before )

Parameters

This template has the following parameters

  • |1= (positional parameter) - the text that goes inside of the parentheses.
  • |s= or |2= - "s" stands for "size". size=SIZE(px, em, pt, or %. If |s=100% then the size of the parentheses is not changed (i.e. the parentheses have their usual size). If |s=200% (resp. |s=50%) then the parentheses are twice (resp. half) their usual size.
    • You may use the positional parameter 2 instead of s (e.g. you may use {{Pars|text|50%}} in place of {{Pars|text|s=50%}}).
    • If neither the parameter s nor 2 is assigned a value then the size of the parentheses is not changed (i.e. the parentheses have their usual size) and no call to the {{font}} template is made.

Examples

No arguments passed

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext> This call (  ) produces parentheses. </syntaxhighlight> This call (  ) produces parentheses.

No resizing used and content is passed

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext> If (X) < 0, then X is negative. </syntaxhighlight> If (X) < 0, then X is negative.

Parentheses are resized and no content passed

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext> If (  ) < 0, then X is negative. </syntaxhighlight> If (  ) < 0, then X is negative.

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext> If (  ) < 0, then X is negative. </syntaxhighlight> If (  ) < 0, then X is negative.

Content is resized but parentheses aren't

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext> If (X) < 0, then X is negative. </syntaxhighlight> If (X) < 0, then X is negative.

Parentheses are resized but content isn't

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext> If (X) < 0, then X is negative. </syntaxhighlight> If (X) < 0, then X is negative.

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext> If (X) < 0, then X is negative. </syntaxhighlight> If (X) < 0, then X is negative.

Content and parentheses are resized. Using parameter s for size of parentheses

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext> If (X) < 0, then X is negative. </syntaxhighlight> If (X) < 0, then X is negative.

Content and parentheses are resized. Passing arguments by their position

Here we indicate the size of the parentheses (as a percentage) by using parameter position number 2 rather than the named parameter |s=.

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext> If (X) < 0, then X is negative. </syntaxhighlight> If (X) < 0, then X is negative.

This is equivalent to the following two lines:

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext> If (X) < 0, then X is negative. </syntaxhighlight> If (X) < 0, then X is negative.

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext> If (X) < 0, then X is negative. </syntaxhighlight> If (X) < 0, then X is negative.

WARNING: in the following line, 1 is first set to {{large|X}} and then because "210" is the first unlabelled positional argument, the value of 1 is overwritten and replaced by "210" (which is why 210 appears inside the parentheses) while the positional argument 2 is never assigned a value (which is why the parentheses have their usual size). This is a documented quirk of Wikipedia templates that could occur with many templates that take two or more arguments.

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext> If (210%) < 0, then X is negative. </syntaxhighlight> If (210%) < 0, then X is negative.

WARNING: the following is NOT valid since it would attempt to place the text "210" inside the parentheses (this is because the positional parameter 1 is assigned the value 210) and then attempt to pass X as the percentage number to the template {{font}} (this is because the positional parameter 2 is assigned the value {{large|X}}) even though it is not a valid number.

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext> If <span style="font-size:X;">(210%<span style="font-size:X;">) < 0, then X is negative. </syntaxhighlight>

It results in the following ill-formed output:

If <span style="font-size:X;">(210%<span style="font-size:X;">) < 0, then X is negative.

See also