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 ## New features
 
 * `draw.gam()` and `draw.smooth_estimates()` can now handle splines on the
-  sphere (`s(lat,long, bs = "sos")`) with special plotting methods using
+  sphere (`s(lat, long, bs = "sos")`) with special plotting methods using
   `ggplot2::coord_map()` to handle the projection to spherical coordinates. An
   orthographic projection is used by default, with an essentially arbitrary
   (and northern hemisphere-centric) default for the orientation of the view.