About making a fraction "taller"

Question

I encountered 2 problema with displaying formula in text format. enter image description here

Should I edit the stylesheet? What exactly should I do?

Take a look at: Any way to make my equations look better, more Latex like?. There is a lot of information you may find useful. Or preventing TraditionalForm from getting “squished” — Kuba, Mar 22 '14 at 08:16
Well, the closers beat me to an answer not contained in the linked "duplicates", which do not address the issue of italics (traditionally, variables are supposed to be in italics): Edit the stylesheet, choose the style Text, and set these options with the Format > OptionInspector: DefaultInlineFormatType->StandardForm, FractionBoxOptions->{AllowScriptLevelChange->False}. Next, you might want to set the font for "InlineCell" by entering the style name InlineCell and setting its font. (Assuming your text is in a Text cell.) — Michael E2, Mar 22 '14 at 12:52

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 22 '14 at 06:12

Give this a try:

Row[{
"1.",
Invisible["space"],
 "(a)",
Invisible["space"],
"Find ",
HoldForm@TraditionalForm@Integrate["x"^2, x]
}]

which produces:

enter image description here

and this:

Row[{
"2.",
Invisible["space"],
"(a)",
Invisible["space"],
"Find ",
HoldForm@TraditionalForm@Integrate[Style[1/"x", 18], x]
}]

produces this:

enter image description here

You can alter the size of the fraction within the Style command.
Quotation marks around characters "x" produces a String.
Change the String within Invisible to alter the spacing between surrounding items.

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