I'm trying to figure out the best way of making a single equation just a little bit smaller. Of course, I could try and break up the equation into pieces and proceed that way, but I'd like to understand the best way to accomplish this task. Here's the problem:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Here is a bunch of text that I'm writing for no good reason.
The overall purpose is to demonstrate how to make an equation
set in a different font size from the surrounding paragraph
without messing up the spacing, like we do here:
{\footnotesize \[ f(x) = g(x) \] }
with an equation set as \verb#{ \footnotesize \[ f(x) = g(x) \]}#
\end{document}
This results in a terribly scrunched looking paragraph, because the \footnotesize command changes the baseline, I believe.
How do I avoid this?
\footnotesize
is roughly 20% (linearly) smaller than\normalize
!, and is probably already pushing the limits of readability of anything but an utterly trivial formula -- you should consider decreasing the amount of whitespace inserted around operators of typemathbin
(e.g.,+
and-
) andmathrel
(e.g.,=
). Small adjustments of these parameters won't harm legibility at all.