Math & Science ⇒ Too much space in squared trigonometric functions

[Cham]

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:

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\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]

I wouldn't do anything. Looks ok to me.

[Cham]

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

[Ijon Tichy]

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

[Cham]

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.