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Consider ASCII character 9, the tab character, sometimes written as "\t" in C++, Java, Python, etc...

In LaTeX, do you suppose that a \quad and a tab are the same width by default, with no customization of the settings?

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  • surely in less time than it took to post these two questions you could have tested a file with a tab and observed it acts as a normal space. – David Carlisle May 28 '23 at 09:07
  • No. Why on earth would you think that \tab and \quad would give the same space? Peter W. (GOM) – Peter Wilson May 28 '23 at 18:30
  • See the "Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary (1975)", or similar, for definitions, none of which have anything to do with Muldoon's answer. The answer is related to the Latin "quod" for "four") – Peter Wilson May 28 '23 at 19:06
  • \quad is just a relative space of 1em. It could be more or less in centimeters depending on the font. It will not change whatever the the horizontal position, and it cannot be measured in number of spaces, that for LaTeX is completely irrelevant (1 space = 2 spaces = 3 spaces +3 tabs = the best inter-word possible space ). The most similar to tabs in plain text or some word processor is \tab of the package tabto. – Fran May 28 '23 at 21:48

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