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Cham
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### Too much space in squared trigonometric functions

I'm having a small glitch with trigonometric functions to some exponent (say squared). There's too much space before its argument, as shown with this simple MWE:

\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper,twoside]{book}\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}\usepackage{lmodern}\usepackage[total={6in,10in},left=1.5in,top=0.5in,includehead,includefoot]{geometry}\usepackage{nccmath,amsmath}\usepackage{amsfonts}\usepackage{mathtools} \begin{document} Blabla bla:	\begin{equation}		\sin^2 \vartheta = \sin^2 \! \vartheta	\end{equation} \end{document}

Preview:
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Adding the command \! (a negative space) before the argument almost solves the spacing issue, but it's not exactly "right". What would you do in such a situation?

Johannes_B
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I wouldn't do anything. Looks ok to me.
The smart way: Calm down and take a deep breath, read posts and provided links attentively, try to understand and ask if necessary.

Cham
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Which one? With the space, or using \! before the argument?

Ijon Tichy
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The first one. As I've already told: You are spending a lot of time to change things, you should not change.

Cham
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I'm changing my code to improve it (as a purist) and to improve the output.

This huge document is a major project for me. The 12pt version is very nice and satisfying, but the font is too big. It feels a bit "amateur" (it has a kind of "MS Word look"). I reduced it to 11pt, and I now have to fix a large amount of mistakes I made when I started that project almost 9 years ago. I was learning LaTeX at that time (and still learning new tricks!).

Also, the new version could be useful since I could copy/paste some parts in new documents. So the code need to be polished.