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Spacer[w]

displays as a spacer w printer's points wide.

Spacer[{w,h}]

displays as a spacer w points wide and a total of h points high.

Spacer[{w,h,dh}]

makes the spacer extend dh points below the baseline.

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Spacer

Spacer[w]

displays as a spacer w printer's points wide.

Spacer[{w,h}]

displays as a spacer w points wide and a total of h points high.

Spacer[{w,h,dh}]

makes the spacer extend dh points below the baseline.

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Examples

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Basic Examples  (2)

Leave 20 printer's points between two letters:

Display a blank space 70 points wide and 50 points high:

Place a spacer 20 points wide and 15 points high in a grid cell:

Scope  (1)

Make the spacer extend 30 points below the baseline:

Properties & Relations  (1)

Use Invisible to display a blank space the same size as a given expression:

Here is the expression in visible form:

Neat Examples  (1)

Linearly varying spacers:

Quadratically varying spacers:

Wolfram Research (2007), Spacer, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Spacer.html.

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Wolfram Research (2007), Spacer, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Spacer.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2007. "Spacer." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Spacer.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2007). Spacer. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Spacer.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_spacer, author="Wolfram Research", title="{Spacer}", year="2007", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Spacer.html}", note=[Accessed: 28-August-2025]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2025_spacer, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={Spacer}, year={2007}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Spacer.html}, note=[Accessed: 28-August-2025]}