Synopsis, one of:
\thinspace \negthinspace
These produce unbreakable and unstretchable spaces of 1/6em and -1/6em, respectively. These are the text mode equivalents of \,
and \!
(see Spacing in math mode/\thinspace).
You can use \,
as a synonym for \thinspace
in text mode.
One common use of \thinspace
is as the space between nested quotes:
Killick replied, ``I heard the Captain say, `Ahoy there.'\thinspace''
Another use is that some style guides call for a \thinspace
between an ellipsis and a sentence ending period (other style guides, think the three dots and/or four dots are plenty). Another style-specific use is between initials, as in D.\thinspace E.\
Knuth
.
LaTeX provides a variety of similar spacing commands (see Spacing in math mode). With amsmath
, or as of the 2020-10-01 LaTeX release, they can be used in text mode as well as math mode, including \!
for \negthinspace
; before that, they were available only in math mode.
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