texinfo: Multiple Spaces

Inserting Space

Not Ending a Sentence

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14.3.1 Multiple Spaces
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Ordinarily, multiple whitespace characters (space, tab, and newline) are
collapsed into a single space.

  Occasionally, you may want to produce several consecutive spaces,
either for purposes of example (e.g., what your program does with
multiple spaces as input), or merely for purposes of appearance in
headings or lists.  Texinfo supports three commands: '@SPACE', '@TAB',
and '@NL', all of which insert a single space into the output.  (Here,
'@SPACE' represents an '@' character followed by a space, i.e., '@ ',
'TAB' represents an actual tab character, and 'NL' represent the tab
character and end-of-line, i.e., when '@' is the last character on a
line.)

  For example,
     Spacey@ @ @ @
     example.

produces

     Spacey    example.

  Other possible uses of '@SPACE' have been subsumed by '@multitable'
(Note: Multi-column Tables).

  Do not follow any of these commands with braces.

  To produce a non-breakable space, see Note: @tie.