General ⇒ spacing in mathematics formulas

[math student]

Hi I'm currently writing my thesis using LaTex, and it's working quite well.

I noticed, however, that the spacing between many of the symbols in the mathematics formulas appears quite "crunched" to me. I looked at some other texts and documents produced with LaTex, and noticed the difference immediately.

It is particularly noticeable after a comma or a closing parenthesis. It just seems to my eye like there should be more space there. I know about the white space commands for mathematics mode that can be used manually in single cases, but I was hoping someone knows of a way to change this globally for the whole document (maybe something that can be set in the preamble?)

I don't want to get into using the manual white space commands, since we're talking about pretty much every single line of my document. I am already using the amssymb and amsmath packages, do they give me global control over the spacing somehow?

[localghost]

[…] I don't want to get into using the manual white space commands, since we're talking about pretty much every single line of my document. I am already using the amssymb and amsmath packages, do they give me global control over the spacing somehow?

As far as i know, a global control of math spacing isn't possible. But, if these two mentioned packages are able to do that, you can read it in the manual of the AMS Latex packages. Perhaps you can get more information about that in the comprehensive review Mathmode.

[math student]

Thanks for you help. If I can't find it there, I doubt it's available anywhere else online.