Brutkey

schuelermine
@anselmschueler@ieji.de

I am often baffled at how LaTeX is viewed as the gold standard of maths typesetting when it produces absolutely HIDEOUS output like these abominations

#latex #typesetting #math #notation

a complicated formula typeset in the LaTeX style the formula involves a root, inside of which, a part of the expression has a brace underneath it with a label, which has been stuck inside the root symbol and doesn’t protrude beyond it downwards inside that, there is a function being applied to a sum, with a noticeably larger-than-usual gap between the function name and the parentheses around the sum, which were scaled to match the vertical size of the sum symbol further inside the root, next to the underbrace-adorned part, another part of the formula, which is offset as to not overlap on any vertical line with the underbrace label, which is longer than the underbrace, even though it could easily fit between the root and the label the root has as its degree a product, which is typeset in scripts mode, i.e. the top and bottom limits of the product are placed on the right next to it and not above and below, but the limits are not at all smaller in font size than the rest of the root degree, and the whole root degree is way smaller than all other text, despite the large size of the root further, the degree has odd tracking (letter spacing), with letters appearing too far apart the function calls f(1) and f(Ξ£) repeated twice, where Ξ£ is the sum symbol, larger than a typical symbol at the top, we can see that the parentheses scale to match the size of the sum symbol. however, in comparison to the bottom, where this is not the case, there is noticeably more space in between "f" and the parentheses