New Members ⇒ Space between two words of text

[Philosophaie]

How do you put a space between two words of text?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Leave a blank (space) between the words in the source code of the document.

If you don't mean a "normal" space, let us know.

Stefan

[Philosophaie]

\begin{gather*}
This Word\\
\end{gather*}

prints out in the pdf as

ThisWord

How do you get a space between "This" and "Word"?

[Johannes_B]

You are in math mode, and as is taught in every introduction, spaces are ignored in math mode. The typeset result you are getting the variables of T and h and i and s ans W and o and r and d multiplied.

You may wanna give away hints on what you want to achieve. Because honestly, your questions seem to contradict themselves and you have kept quite a lot of people busy right now.


And please, why did you once again post in the new members section, when this, as alle posts before where about maths and have been moved there?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

If you need to use gather*, the correct way would be this way, using amsmath, because of the math mode:

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\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{amsmath} 
\begin{document} 
\begin{gather*}
\text{This Word}\\
\end{gather*}
\end{document}

If you just need centering of text, you could use center:

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\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{amsmath} 
\begin{document} 
\begin{center}
This Word\\
\end{center}
\end{document}

Even simpler, if you just would like to switch on centering and keep it, use \centering:

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\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{amsmath} 
\begin{document} 
\centering
This Word\\
\end{document}

The very first way is using math mode, which removes the spaces, as Johannes said, as a side effect. So I would not use gather for simple text.

Stefan