Subscript

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A subscript (also subscript of Engl. Subscript ) is a number , a letter or other character that is written below the normal print line. Subscriptions are often used in formulas, mathematical expressions, or sum formulas of molecules . The sum formula of water is generally known : H 2 O. Typographically, subscripts are marked with a deeper baseline and a smaller font size than the rest of the text. In the example of the empirical formula of water above, the number two should be about two-thirds the size of the H and the O. Most word processing programs do this automatically.

Creation, input

  • In HTML and WikiSyntax , subscript text is created using the <sub>and tags </sub>; <sub>Tief</sub>results in low .
  • In TeX ' math mode, also used in MediaWiki , subscripts are created using an underscore (_): $X_{ab}$results .
  • In TeX ' text mode, subscripts are created with the command \textsubscript{}.

use

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