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
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.