Math & Science ⇒ Exponent Hitting Radical

[jsbeardsley]

Hi, the following is the code that is troubling me. Specifically, the exponenent on the tangent function is running into the radical. I have tried using \cramped from the mathtools package which was honestly kind of a shot in the dark, and I can't find any other documentation on customizing either exponents or \sqrt. Does anyone know how to fix this, or just push down the exponent a little, or anything?

Thanks!

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{mathtools}

\begin{document}
$\sqrt{\tan^2(x)}$
\end{document}

[localghost]

Works fine for me. Hence I can't confirm what you described.


Thorsten

[jsbeardsley]

Interesting. Now it doesn't look like it's touching, at least in just that environment. The problem occurs for me inside of \documentclass{exam} and inside of a \part environment (similar to enumerate), so I'm not sure. Maybe there's some weird spacing going on under the surface. Are there any commands that would bring that exponent lower though, or increase the height of \sqrt?

[shadgrind]

The 2 isn't hitting the square root bar for me either, but it is very close. You could add vertical space inside the square root with the \vphantom command. For example:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\begin{document}
$\sqrt{\vphantom{x^{x^x}}\tan^2(x)}$
\end{document}

That adds only the vertical space needed as if the triple exponent x^x^x were inside the square root. The result does look a bit better, in my opinion.

[jsbeardsley]

Thanks for that. Yeah, when I just compile that code as written, it actually looks okay, but for some reason in my document (which is long and unpleasant, which is why I'm not posting it), it touches.

Anyway,
Thanks.