Text and Spacing

Spacing

• Spaces are often ignored when typing KaTEX in either inline or display mode.
• P( x ) = x^2 - x + 1

• To format spaces, we use escape characters and specific commands for that.
  • For example, using \, will allow us to space our characters by em space:
• Here’s an example of different spacing commands and their equivalent units.

Command	Alternate Command	Width	Example	Output
\,	\thinspace	em space	a \,\, b
\> or \:	\medspace	em space	a \>\: b
\;	\thickspace	em space	a \;\; b
\enspace		em space	a \enspace b
\quad		em space	a \quad b
\qquad		em space	a \qquad b

Negative Spacing

• Negative spacing allows you to remove spacing between two characters
  • a \negthinspace b displays as

Command	Width	Example	Output
\negthinspace	em space	(a + b) \negthinspace (b + a)
\negmedspace	em space	(a + b) \negmedspace (b + a)
\negthickspace	em space	(a + b) \negthickspace (b + a)

Custom Spacing

• Aside from predefined spacing commands, KaTEX also supports custom spacing with KaTEX units using the command \hspace{length}.

• a \hspace{10ex} b
  

• The length argument accepts any positive or negative spacing values, or in terms of other units such as the CSS em, or CSS ex.

  • You may want to see here for more precise units that are natively supported by KaTEX.

Text

• If we want to display text in math mode, we would use the \text{} command.
  • Anything displayed inside the \text command will be displayed as normal text.

\frac{1}{(ax +b)(cx + d)} = \frac{A}{ax + b} + \frac{B}{cx + d} \qquad \text{Partial Fraction Decomposition}