current latex template for this book is not satisfactory

[soulmachine]

When begin to write this book, candidate latex templates are MIT Press latex template - mitpress and Springer latex template - SVMult.

SVMult looks pretty close to my expectation, and its documents are more complete and detailed than mipress, so I choose SVMult to get started quickly.

Though SVMult is good, but it's far from perfect. Actually I prefer this book, Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective very much, thus I wanna make this open source book look like it.

The book MLAPP is from MIT Press, but it looks totally different with the mipress template. I guess although the MLAPP book is based on the mitpress template , it has made a lot of customizations.

In future, I will change current template to mitpress and do a lot of customizations.

If anybody knows there exists such a latex template similar to MLAPP, please let me know, I will be appreciated.

[luangong]

几个问题：

1. 页边距太大了
2. 积分式中的 dx 与之前的表达式应该有一个小的间距，且 d 应该直立，例如 \int_0^1 x^2\,\mathrm{d}x
3. LaTeX 自带的免费 Times 字体是 URW Nimbus Roman No 9 L，用作数学字体时符号太窄，尤其是 sum 求和符号，巨丑，我现在一般用 Palatino 或 Computer Modern 字体，算法导论的 Times 字体用的是商业字体 MathTime Pro 2，稍微好点。总之我我尽量不用 Times 系列做数学字体，最多正文用 Times 系列，数字字体还用 Computer Modern（实际是 Latin Modern）或 Palatino（实际是 URL Palladio L 或 TeX Gyre Pagella）。这个就看你的喜好了，不强求，至少比 Word 强多了。

[soulmachine]

1. 我也知道页面边距太大，你看看svmult.cls的第231-238行，这里可以调节页面布局，但是我调了很久，总是不能如愿 2和3我有空再看看

[luangong]

\usepackage[papersize={182mm,257mm},hmargin=20mm,vmargin=22mm]{geometry}

[greathope]

所以这本书就是把Machine learning: A Probabilistic Perspective浓缩了下？