Latex Math Spacing Complete Guide

Math Line and paragraph spacing Arbitrary size spaces nhspace length makes a horizontal space. Display style in math mode. Spacing around operators and relations in math mode are governed by specific skip lengths.

Example usage of medium space.

In a math environment LaTeX ignores the spaces you type and puts in the spacing that it thinks is best. For relationnal operators such as and LaTeX establishes thickmuskip space. All the predefined mathematical symbols from the T e X package are listed below. Spaces of exactly the size of some rendered text can be obtained using the phantom command and its cousins hphantom and vphantom as follows.