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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.8, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <!-- This manual is for GNU Texinfo (version 6.8, 8 June 2021), a documentation system that can produce both online information and a printed manual from a single source using semantic markup. Copyright (C) 1988, 1990-1993, 1995-1999, 2001-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". --> <title>@dmn (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="@dmn (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="@dmn (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="texi2any"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> <link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" rel="index" title="Command and Variable Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Inserting-Space.html" rel="up" title="Inserting Space"> <link href="_0040frenchspacing.html" rel="prev" title="@frenchspacing"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.copiable-anchor {visibility: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 0em} a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} span:hover a.copiable-anchor {visibility: visible} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> </head> <body lang="en"> <div class="subsection" id="g_t_0040dmn"> <div class="header"> <p> Previous: <a href="_0040frenchspacing.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev"><code>@frenchspacing</code> <var>val</var>: Control Sentence Spacing</a>, Up: <a href="Inserting-Space.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Inserting Space</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <span id="g_t_0040dmn_007bdimension_007d_003a-Format-a-Dimension"></span><h4 class="subsection">11.3.5 <code>@dmn</code>{<var>dimension</var>}: Format a Dimension</h4> <span id="dmn"></span><span id="index-Thin-space-between-number_002c-dimension"></span> <span id="index-Dimension-formatting"></span> <span id="index-Format-a-dimension"></span> <span id="index-dmn"></span> <p>You can use the <code>@dmn</code> command to format a dimension with a little extra space in the printed output. That is, on seeing <code>@dmn</code>, TeX inserts just enough space for proper typesetting; in other output formats, the formatting commands insert no space at all. </p> <p>To use the <code>@dmn</code> command, write the number and then follow it immediately, with no intervening space, by <code>@dmn</code>, and then by the dimension within braces. For example, </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">A4 paper is 8.27@dmn{in} wide. </pre></div> <p>produces </p> <blockquote> <p>A4 paper is 8.27in wide. </p></blockquote> <p>Not everyone uses this style. Some people prefer ‘8.27 in.’ or ‘8.27 inches’. In these cases, however, you need to use <code>@tie</code> (see <a href="_0040tie.html"><code>@tie{}</code>: Inserting an Unbreakable Space</a>) or <code>@w</code> (see <a href="_0040w.html"><code>@w</code>{<var>text</var>}: Prevent Line Breaks</a>) so that no line break can occur between the number and the dimension. Also, if you write a period after an abbreviation within a sentence (as with the ‘in.’ above), you should write ‘<samp>@:</samp>’ after the period to prevent TeX from inserting extra whitespace, as shown here. See <a href="Not-Ending-a-Sentence.html">Not Ending a Sentence</a>. </p> </div> </body> </html>