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Synopsis: 0130 </p> 0131 <div class="example"> 0132 <pre class="example">\ 0133 </pre></div> 0134 0135 <p>Produce a space. By default it produces white space of length 0136 3.33333pt plus 1.66666pt minus 1.11111pt. 0137 </p> 0138 <p>When you type one or more blanks between words, LaTeX produces white 0139 space. But that is different than an explicit space. This illustrates. 0140 </p> 0141 <div class="example"> 0142 <pre class="example">\begin{tabular}{l} 0143 One blank: makes some space \\ 0144 Three blanks: in a row \\ 0145 Three spaces:\ \ \ in a row \\ 0146 \end{tabular} 0147 </pre></div> 0148 0149 <p>On the first line LaTeX puts some space after the colon. On the 0150 second line LaTeX collapses the three blanks to output one 0151 whitespace, so you end with the same space after the colon as in the 0152 first line. LaTeX would similarly collapse a blank followed by a 0153 tab, or a blank and a newline and a blank. However, the bottom line 0154 asks for three spaces so the white area is wider. That is, the 0155 backslash-space command creates a fixed amount of horizontal space. 0156 (Note that you can define a horizontal space of any width at all with 0157 <code>\hspace</code>; see <a href="_005chspace.html#g_t_005chspace">\hspace</a>.) 0158 </p> 0159 <p>The backslash-space command has two main uses. It is often used after 0160 control sequences to keep them from gobbling the space that follows, as 0161 in <code>\TeX\ is nice</code>. (But using curly parentheses, as in 0162 <code>\TeX{} is best</code>, has the advantage of still working if the next 0163 character is a period.) The other common use is that it marks a period 0164 as ending an abbreviation instead of ending a sentence, as in <code>So 0165 says Prof.\ Smith</code> or <code>Jones et al.\ (1993)</code> (see <a href="_005c_0040.html#g_t_005c_0040">\@</a>). 0166 </p> 0167 <p>Under normal circumstances, <code>\</code><tt class="key">tab</tt> and <code>\</code><tt class="key">newline</tt> 0168 are equivalent to backslash-space, <code>\ </code>. 0169 </p> 0170 0171 0172 0173 0174 <hr/><div class='referenceinfo'> <a href='https://latexref.xyz/'> <i>Unofficial LaTeX2e reference manual</i></a></div> 0175 </body> 0176 </html>