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19.3 \SPACE

The \ (space) command produces a normal interword space. It's useful after punctuation which shouldn't end a sentence. For example Knuth's article in Proc.\ Amer.\ Math\. Soc.\ is fundamental. It is also often used after control sequences, as in \TeX\ is a nice system.

In normal circumstances, \<tab> and \<newline> are equivalent to \ .