Parentheses Not Appearing

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I have a snippet called “tin” which contains a number (tin stands for “Training Identification Number”) and there are times when I need this number to be written inside parentheses. I created a snippet called “tinp” that looks like this: (Snippet: tin). However, when I expand this snippet, the parentheses don’t appear. Why is this happening, and is there a work-around?

Appreciate the help,

Michael

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Just for grins try parenthesis inside parenthesis

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Hadn’t tried that yet, but I just did and - darn that doesn’t work either.

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Try changing the abbreviation for tinp to ptin and see if that fixes it.

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Thanks, Josh, for your suggestion. I tried your suggestion and I think we’re a little bit closer, but it didn’t quite work. Here’s what happened: https://app.screencast.com/NMYXbIIy7qwJD

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Thanks for the video. Super odd! A couple of things to try:

  1. Check the content of your tin Snippet to make sure it’s just the number.
  2. Put a semicolon in front of both Snippet abbreviations (be sure to update the embedded Snippet abbreviation also!). That way we’re not accidentally expanding another Snippet with tin in the abbreviation.

This set up is working for me:

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That worked! Thanks so much. Why is it that doing this with a semicolon made this work?

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Awesome! My guess is you have another Snippet with an abbreviation that starts with tin that is being triggered.

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Interesting, okay, I’ll keep an eye out for that. Again, thanks Josh.

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