How to add space in TexMaths equation

Cbhihe · September 23, 2019, 6:33pm

Hi using LO Writer, I insert simple equation with TexMaths, eg.:

param = {alignc{1}} over {N_{rec}}

How can I pad blank space around (on both sides) of the equal sign ?

I checked the Latex doc but nothing (such as: , or ; or : ) seems to work.

EDIT:
I confirm that LaTeX’ “big space” or “thin space” do NOT work on my instance. I work on Archlinux with TexMaths 0.48 and LO 6.3.1.2

RGB-es · September 23, 2019, 9:17pm

I just tried with TexMaths 0.48 and the “big space” \; works without problems.

anon73440385 · September 23, 2019, 9:51pm

@RGB-es Thanks for the clarification. Deleted my answer.

Cbhihe · September 24, 2019, 7:34am

@RGB-es: see my Edit.
@anon73440385: Thanks and, please, do re-post your answer. It does work fine.

anon73440385 · September 24, 2019, 8:51am

Actually I don’t understand the real question anymore and obviously others are confused now as well. Your “EDIT” still confirms that the question is about TexMaths and your latest comment states that my “LibreOffice-Math-related” answer worked for you. If that’s true, to mention “TexMaths” must be considered a red herring. Just to be clear: My original answer was inspired by the code sequence of the question, which looked to me (though doing some LaTeX long time ago) purely as a Math markup (to be honest I oversaw Tex in TexMaths during first reading)

Cbhihe · September 24, 2019, 9:00am

@anon73440385, my OP is factually correct and I use TexMaths v0.48 as mentioned. Why should TexMaths be a red herring ? A red herring for what ?
Your solution works. T’is all.
Tx.

anon73440385 · September 24, 2019, 9:17am

Great that you are not confused but I’m. My solution was a solution for Math and not for TexMaths (which I never worked with and I even don’t know what it is exactly) and even the screenshot was from Math module. Anyway …

ajlittoz · September 24, 2019, 5:46am

OOPS! Apologies, I disregarded TexMaths and answered for Math. Do you want me to delete my (faulty) answer?

Math is not TeX. Its markup language is different.

There are 3 spaces (from thinnest to widest):

space (U+0020 SPACE)
grave accent ` (U+0060 GRAVE ACCENT)
tilde ~ (U+007E TILDE)

When ` and ~ are used, spaces around them are ignored. From experiment, using more than one ` (to enlarge spacing) leads to very strange results while this works well with ~.

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