| Subject | English | Lao |
| comp., MS | character spacing | ໄລຍະຫ່າງຕົວໜັງສື (The distance between characters in a line of text. Tracking, kerning, and scaling can be used to adjust the space between characters) |
| comp., MS | line spacing | ໄລຍະຫ່າງແຖວ (The amount of space from the bottom of one line of text to the bottom of the next line) |
| comp., MS | non-spacing character | ຕົວໜັງສືທີ່ບໍ່ມີໄລຍະຫ່າງທາງແຖວ (A character, such as diacritic, that has no meaning by itself, but overlaps a base character to modify it) |
| comp., MS | spacing character | ຕົວໜັງສືທີ່ມີໄລຍະຫ່າງທາງແຖວ (A character with a non-zero width) |