Spaces

LaTeX has many ways to produce white (or filled) space. Some of these are best suited to mathematical text; see Spacing in math mode. Some spacing commands are suitable for both regular text and mathematical text; versions of some of these commands are in this chapter.

Horizontal space
• \enspace & \quad & \qquad		Traditional horizontal spaces.
• \hspace		Any horizontal space.
• \hfill		Stretchable horizontal space.
• \hss		Infinitely stretchable/shrinkable horizontal space.
• \spacefactor		Stretchability of following space
• \(SPACE)		Backslash-space; and explicit space.
• ~		Tie, an unbreakable space.
• \thinspace & \negthinspace		One-sixth of an em, and negative one-sixth.
• \/		Italic correction.
• \hrulefill & \dotfill		Stretchable horizontal rule or dots.
Vertical space
• \bigskip & \medskip & \smallskip		Inter-paragraph vertical spaces.
• \bigbreak & \medbreak & \smallbreak		Inter-paragraph space and page breaks.
• \strut		Ensure height of a line.
• \vspace		Vertical space.
• \vfill		Stretchable vertical space.
• \addvspace		Add arbitrary vertical space if needed.