SubscriptBox
SubscriptBox[x,y]
is the low‐level box representation for xy in notebook expressions.
Details and Options
- SubscriptBox is the low-level representation of Subscript. Except for low-level notebook expression manipulation, SubscriptBox should not need to be used directly.
- Inside ∖(…∖) SubscriptBox[x,y] can be input as x∖_y.
- In a notebook, a SubscriptBox can be created using
or 
. 
moves out of the subscript position. - The following options can be given:
-
BaseStyle {} the style to use MultilineFunction Automatic how to handle scripts so long that linebreaking may be necessary - In StandardForm, SubscriptBox[x,y] is interpreted on input as Subscript[x,y].
- The baseline of SubscriptBox[x,y] is taken to be the baseline of x.
- SubscriptBox[x,y] is usually output with y in a smaller font than x.
- In StandardForm, explicit SubscriptBox objects are output literally. You can use DisplayForm to see the display form of such objects.
Examples
Basic Examples (3)
Display a letter with a subscript:
SubscriptBox["x", "0"]//DisplayFormA SubscriptBox form is typically interpreted as a Subscript expression:
ToExpression[SubscriptBox["x", "0"], StandardForm]%//FullFormThe standard formatting for Subscript uses SubscriptBox:
ToBoxes[Subscript[x, 0], StandardForm]//FullFormThe formatted result looks like this:
Subscript[x, 0]Text
Wolfram Research (1996), SubscriptBox, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SubscriptBox.html (updated 2007).
CMS
Wolfram Language. 1996. "SubscriptBox." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2007. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SubscriptBox.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (1996). SubscriptBox. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SubscriptBox.html