Thin space
In typography, a thin space is a space character whose width is usually Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1⁄5 or Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1⁄6 of an em. It is used to add a narrow space, such as between nested quotation marks or to separate glyphs that interfere with one another. It is not as narrow as the hair space. It is also used in the International System of Units and in many countries as a thousands separator when writing numbers in groups of three digits, in order to facilitate reading.[1] It also avoids the ambiguity of the comma, used as a thousands separator in many countries but as a decimal point in Europe.
In Unicode, thin space is encoded at Page Template:Mono/styles.css has no content.U+2009 Script error: No such module "Unicode data". (Page Template:Mono/styles.css has no content.Script error: No such module "LoadData".). Some text editors, such as IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio, will display the character as its suggested abbreviation of "THSP".[2] Unicode's Page Template:Mono/styles.css has no content.U+202F Script error: No such module "Unicode data". is a non-breaking space with a width similar to that of the thin space.
In LaTeX and Plain TeX, \thinspace produces a narrow, non-breaking space.[3][4] Inside and outside of math formulae in LaTeX, \, also produces a narrow, non-breaking space.
In all versions of LibreOffice and in some of Microsoft Word, the special characters and symbols dialog (often available via Insert > Symbol or Insert > Special Characters), has both the thin space and the narrow no-break space available for point-and-click insertion. In LibreOffice's Symbol dialog, there is an easy-to-find box field to narrow the searching; in Word's Symbol dialog, under font = "(normal text)", the characters are found in subset = "General Punctuation", Unicode character 2009 and nearby. Other word processing programs and many Linux configurations have ways of producing a thin space using keyboard shortcuts.
See also
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- Figure space
- Whitespace character for additional space characters of various widths
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Schneider, Marcel (January 13, 2020). "Proposal to extend support for abbreviations - For consideration by Unicode Technical Committee (20007-abbreviations.pdf)" (PDF).
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Knuth, Donald E. (1986) [Incorporates the final corrections made in 1996]. The TeXbook (PDF). Illustrations by Duane Bibby. Addison Wesley. pp. 5, 352. hdl:2027/mdp.49015000850066. ISBN 978-0-201-13447-6. LCCN 85-30845. OCLC 682395096. OL 7406778M. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 24, 2004.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Braams, Johannes; et al. (October 1, 2015). The LaTeX 2ε Sources (PDF) (1.2 ed.). p. 79.
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