Command/hspace
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\hspace
Summary
The command \hspace inserts horizontal space
Settings
| \hspace[...][...] | |
| [...] | name |
| [...] | small medium big normal default none .5 1 2 3 speech quote interquotation quotation sentence intersentence final name |
| Option | Explanation |
|---|---|
| small | .25em |
| medium | .5em |
| big | 1em |
| normal | spaceamount |
| default | spaceamount |
| .5 | .1250em (aka \hairspace) |
| 1 | .1667em (aka \thinspace) |
| 2 | .2222em (aka \medspace) |
| 3 | .2777em (aka \thickspace) |
| speech | a language-specific amount, taken from the "quotation" language parameter |
| quote | a language-specific amount, taken from the "quotation" language parameter |
| interquotation | .125em |
| quotation | 0pt |
| sentence | 0pt |
| intersentence | .25em |
Description
Insert a named amount of horizontal space. A number of dimensions are already predefined; more can be defined with \definehspace.
Examples
Example 1
\definehspace[oneem][1 em] \definehspace[twoem][2 em] asdf\hspace[oneem]asdf\crlf asdf\hspace[twoem]asdf
Example 2
asdf\hspace[speech]: more text \language[fr] asdf\hspace[speech]: more text
