Spaces and newlines within an expression are thrown away by
EQN.
(Normal text is left absolutely alone.)
Thus
between
.EQ
and
.EN,
x=y+z
and
x = y + z
and
x = y
+ z
and so on
all produce the same
output
![[equation]](eqn-51.gif)
You should use spaces and newlines freely to make your input equations readable and easy to edit. In particular, very long lines are a bad idea, since they are often hard to fix if you make a mistake.