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<h4 class="subsection">14.3.3 Multiple Spaces</h4>
<p><a name="index-Multiple-spaces-671"></a><a name="index-Whitespace_002c-inserting-672"></a><a name="index-Space_002c-inserting-horizontal-673"></a><a name="index-g_t_003cspace_003e-674"></a><a name="index-g_t_003ctab_003e-675"></a><a name="index-g_t_003cnewline_003e-676"></a>
Ordinarily, TeX collapses multiple whitespace characters (space, tab,
and newline) into a single space. Info output, on the other hand,
preserves whitespace as you type it, except for changing a newline into
a space; this is why it is important to put two spaces at the end of
sentences in Texinfo documents.
<p>Occasionally, you may want to actually insert several consecutive
spaces, either for purposes of example (what your program does with
multiple spaces as input), or merely for purposes of appearance in
headings or lists. Texinfo supports three commands:
<code>@</code><kbd>SPACE</kbd>, <code>@</code><kbd>TAB</kbd>, and <code>@</code><kbd>NL</kbd>, all of
which insert a single space into the output. (Here,
<code>@</code><kbd>SPACE</kbd> represents an ‘<samp><span class="samp">@</span></samp>’ character followed by a
space, i.e., ‘<samp><span class="samp">@ </span></samp>’, and <kbd>TAB</kbd> and <kbd>NL</kbd> represent the tab
character and end-of-line, i.e., when ‘<samp><span class="samp">@</span></samp>’ is the last character on
a line.)
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<pre class="example"> Spacey@ @ @ @
example.
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<pre class="example"> Spacey example.
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<code>@multitable</code> (see <a href="Multi_002dcolumn-Tables.html#Multi_002dcolumn-Tables">Multi-column Tables</a>).
<p>Do not follow any of these commands with braces.
<p>To produce a non-breakable space, see <a href="tie.html#tie"><code>@tie</code></a>.
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