How to automatically add thin space about parens

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When I use slides, I prefer adding thin spaces about my parentheses, I would like to define a 1 or 2 character openparen and closeparen command that does this; Ideally, the actual spaces used would be parameters with defaults.

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Hello @JSarnoff ,

Keeping things simple, I would try something like:

#show "(" : [(#sym.space.nobreak.narrow]
#show ")" : [#sym.space.nobreak.narrow)]
(test)

Simple and effective.

Edit: You can always redefine the show rule to use another symbol, or revert to default usage.

If you really want functions, with configurable symbol, you could use:

#let o-p(space: sym.space.nobreak.narrow, paren: "(") = [#paren#space]
#let c-p(space: sym.space.nobreak.narrow, paren: ")") = [#space#paren]
#o-p()test#c-p()

But in that case, it would probably be easier to use the show rules with a limited scope as needed.

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Thank you for the help.