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SubscriptBox

SubscriptBox[x,y]

is the low‐level box representation for x_y 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:

A SubscriptBox form is typically interpreted as a Subscript expression:

The standard formatting for Subscript uses SubscriptBox:

The formatted result looks like this:

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