PROD: equations don't look great

[AllenDowney]

Rendering of equations doesn't look very good. Page 30 is the first example to look at. Another is the exponents on page 116. And on page 118, the number 1.5 is spaced strangely.

Is there different DocBook I could generate to make these look better? Or can we tweak them by hand?

[kristenORM]

I think these will have to be tweaked by hand, unfortunately. I do know that we try to use plaintext markup for simpler equations rather than MathML, if the content doesn't really need special formatting/characters.

For instance,

<inlineequation><mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>G</mml:mi><mml:mo>(</mml:mo><mml:mi>n</mml:mi><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mo>)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:math></inlineequation>

Could instead be rendered as

<emphasis>G</emphasis> (<emphasis>n</emphasis>, <emphasis>p</emphasis>)

I think this tactic would also help with the weird spacing in numbers like 1.5.

What about the exponents on pg 116 (which I see are already in XML rather than MathML) is a problem? I can run these by a colleague who has more experience with equations, but a general sense of how you want them to look instead would be a good starting point.