Now Dragonlance,
Your opening sentence was good but you do not need to get rude with people.
Anon, I think it is great that you had a go at LaTex. I am always trying to encourage people to use it and you cannot learn it all at once :)
So please keep up your great efforts 
There are a lot of ways to put spaces between words.
Dragonlance has done it with this code:
{$This is how it should look }
$${$This is how it should look }$$
I have never used code exactly the same as Dragonlance's.
I may have used \mbox{This is how it should look }
$$\mbox{This is how it should look }$$
\ says a function is following and mbox stands for messsage box :)
Here is another way
This\; is \;how\; it\; should\; look
$$This\; is \;how\; it\; should\; look$$
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