A few math experience improvements, inspired by Fredrik Johansson.

doc/ext/math.rst

@@ -129,11 +129,21 @@ There are various config values you can set to influence how the images are buil
 
 .. confval:: pngmath_dvipng_args
 
-   Additional arguments to give to dvipng, as a list.  This is empty by default.
+   Additional arguments to give to dvipng, as a list.  The default value is
-   Arguments you might want to add here are e.g. ``['-bg', 'Transparent']``,
+   ``['-gamma 1.5', '-D 110']`` which makes the image a bit darker and larger
+   then it is by default.
+   
+   An arguments you might want to add here is e.g. ``'-bg Transparent'``,
    which produces PNGs with a transparent background.  This is not enabled by
    default because some Internet Explorer versions don't like transparent PNGs.
 
+   .. note::
+
+      When you "add" an argument, you need to reproduce the default arguments if
+      you want to keep them; that is, like this::
+
+         pngmath_dvipng_args = ['-gamma 1.5', '-D 110', '-bg Transparent']
+
 .. confval:: pngmath_use_preview
 
    ``dvipng`` has the ability to determine the "depth" of the rendered text: for

sphinx/ext/pngmath.py

@@ -172,8 +172,8 @@ def cleanup_tempdir(app, exc):
 
 def html_visit_math(self, node):
     fname, depth = render_math(self, '$'+node['latex']+'$')
-    self.body.append('<img src="%s" alt="%s" %s/>' %
+    self.body.append('<img class="math" src="%s" alt="%s" %s/>' %
-                     (fname, self.encode(node['latex']),
+                     (fname, self.encode(node['latex']).strip(),
                       depth and 'style="vertical-align: %dpx" ' % (-depth) or ''))
     raise nodes.SkipNode
 
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ def html_visit_displaymath(self, node):
     if node['number']:
         self.body.append('<span class="eqno">(%s)</span>' % node['number'])
     self.body.append('<img src="%s" alt="%s" />\n</div>' %
-                     (fname, self.encode(node['latex'])))
+                     (fname, self.encode(node['latex']).strip()))
     self.body.append('</p>')
     raise nodes.SkipNode
 
@@ -198,6 +198,6 @@ def setup(app):
     app.add_config_value('pngmath_dvipng', 'dvipng', False)
     app.add_config_value('pngmath_latex', 'latex', False)
     app.add_config_value('pngmath_use_preview', False, False)
-    app.add_config_value('pngmath_dvipng_args', [], False)
+    app.add_config_value('pngmath_dvipng_args', ['-gamma 1.5', '-D 110'], False)
     app.add_config_value('pngmath_latex_preamble', '', False)
     app.connect('build-finished', cleanup_tempdir)

sphinx/static/default.css

@@ -832,6 +832,10 @@ form.comment textarea {
     border: 3px solid red;
 }
 
+img.math {
+    vertical-align: middle;
+}
+
 div.math {
     text-align: center;
 }

sphinx/static/sphinxdoc.css

@@ -272,6 +272,14 @@ div.sidebar {
     float: right;
 }
 
+div.quotebar {
+    background-color: #f8f8f8;
+    max-width: 250px;
+    float: right;
+    padding: 2px 7px;
+    border: 1px solid #ccc;
+}
+
 p.sidebar-title {
     font-weight: bold;
 }
@@ -532,6 +540,10 @@ ul.keywordmatches li.goodmatch a {
     font-weight: bold;
 }
 
+img.math {
+    vertical-align: center;
+}
+
 div.math {
     text-align: center;
 }