# Increase margin between tilde and line of fraction [closed]

I've written a document with some complex formulars in it. I find the distance or the margin between a decoration of a variable, in this case a tilde and the line of the fraction, in which it stands to be too small. Here is a screenshot to show what I am talking about:

The red arrow points to the very small margin between a tilde and the line of a fraction. Note that this is already quite zoomed in, so usually in 100% zoom, it would look like this:

So I'd like to increase the margin in general. If there is decoration on my variables below the line of a fraction, that should be calculated into how far below my variable stands / how much margin there is.

How can I change that?

EDIT#1

To reproduce the process of creation I used, you'd have to use a Jupyter Notebook. However, I'll paste the math-mode code here, maybe it's still the same, when you use different tools, since it's based on Latex anyway:

$c^{-}_k = \left\{\begin{array}{cl} \infty &\text{falls } \tilde{a}_{\sigma(k),j} \leq 0, \forall j \neq k\\ \substack{\min\\j} \left\{ \frac{\tilde{c}_j} \tilde{a}_{\sigma(k),j}}: \tilde{a}_{\sigma(k), j} > 0, j \neq k \right\} &\text{sonst} \end{array}\right.$


EDIT#2

The suggested adding of \vphantom{\big|} did bring improvement indeed:

(upper image after insertion, lower image before insertion) The whole formular increased in size, but that was to be expected I guess. Quite an increase in size though. I am aware that this is a rather not so good practice, since I'd have to add a vphantom in every single fraction I ever write. If anyone knows another tex way of doing this for all formulars, I'd appreciate it, even if you can't reproduce the issue, if you know how to increase that space in general, please tell.

## closed as off-topic by egreg, user13907, Martin Schröder, Kurt, Svend TveskægNov 28 '15 at 13:51

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• Welcome to TeX.SX! I can't reproduce the issue; can you please show a minimal example of code? – egreg Nov 27 '15 at 23:10
• @egreg Thanks! Added my math-mode code for the expression. – Zelphir Nov 28 '15 at 10:50
• What's Jupiter Notebook? – egreg Nov 28 '15 at 11:07
• @egreg Jupyter is jupyter.readthedocs.org/en/latest : ) – Zelphir Nov 28 '15 at 12:29
• Sorry, the program doesn't seem to use TeX, but it just shares the syntax. The rendering is up to the program and we can do nothing on the TeX side. Try adding a phantom, for instance \vphantom{\big|} in the denominator. – egreg Nov 28 '15 at 12:36