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}