LaTeX has many ways to produce white space, or filled space. Some of these are best suited to mathematical text; for these see Spacing in math mode.
\enspace & \quad & \qquad\hspace\hfill\hss\ ’~, \nobreakspace\spacefactor: Extra space after punctuation\thinspace & \negthinspace\/: Italic correction\hrulefill & \dotfill\bigskip & \medskip & \smallskip\bigbreak & \medbreak & \smallbreak\strut\vspace\vfill\addvspace