My problem is that I am about to write a longer mathematical text, and it will be filled with integrals. Integrals tend to be filled with pesky fractions, square roots and what not.
Personally I feel like LaTeX is spacing things "wrongly" I prefer to have more space in my fractions, and a tad more space after the square roots. Look at the comparison below. The difference is small, but noticable.
How it normally looks
How I prefer it to look
My question is that, I think doing these small fixes manually is bad. So my question is
Should I avoid doing it? I mean is it "wrong"?
And if not, is there a more automatic solution to this?
(Right now I am merely putting in some space after the roots. like \,
)
Here is a smaller MWE, I think the right side looks better than the left.
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{minimal}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\begin{document}
\begin{align*}
\int \frac{1+x^2}{1+x^4} \mathrm{d}x \qquad & \text{versus} \qquad \int \frac{\,1+x^2\,}{\,1+x^4\,}\, \mathrm{d}x\\
\int_1^\infty \frac{\mathrm{d}x}{x\sqrt{-1+\sqrt[n]{x}}} \qquad & \text{versus} \qquad \int_1^\infty \frac{\mathrm{d}x}{\,x\sqrt{-1+\sqrt[n]{x}\,}\,}
\end{align*}
\end{document}
Best Answer
You could renew the
\sqrt
command to put the space in automatically.Renewing the
\sqrt
command is a little tricky because it takes an optional argument. Luckily it has been demonstrated in"Closed" (square) root symbol
Here's a screenshot of the result
In the MWE below, you'll see that I have
\renewcommand
ed the\sqrt
command to be itself, but with a space immediately following it using\,
The subtleties involved are described in detail in the linked post.I think that in the context of your particular document, you might want the option to define a separate 'spaced square root symbol' so that you don't affect all of the
\sqrt
. You could achieve this usingand, of course, you can name it anything you like- I used
\ssqrt
to stand for 'spaced square root'.