Put a leading space to a paragraph using texttt

Question

This line

~~Some~~thing

produces two leading spaces before the word 'Some' and the spaces before 'thing'.

However,

\texttt{~~Some~~thing}

does not produces the first two spaces (but produces the two spaces between the words).

Is there a way to force the leading spaces also when using \texttt?

Answer 1

As egreg mentions, \texttt{~~Some} does produce leading spaces, so perhaps there was some other issue (such as paragraph indentation) messing up your experiment.

However, from the comments it appears that you are adding \textt just to include content that you don't want formatted and you want the leading spaces intacct. A simple way to do this is to use the verbatim environment:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{verbatim}
Some thing
   Some more thing with leading spaces     and more space here
\end{verbatim}
\end{document}