subscript
subscript — A subscript (as in H₂O, the molecular formula for water).
Synopsis
subscript ::=
- Zero or more of:
- text
- Graphic inlines
- Indexing inlines
- Linking inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
abbrevacronymaltanchorbibliorefcorefdateemphasis(db._emphasis)firstterm(db._firstterm)footnotefootnoterefforeignphrase(db._foreignphrase)glossterm(db._glossterm)indexterm(db.indexterm.endofrange)indexterm(db.indexterm.singular)indexterm(db.indexterm.startofrange)inlinemediaobjectlinkolinkphrase(db._phrase)quote(db._quote)remarksubscriptsuperscripttrademarkwordaswordxref
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
No additional attributes.
Description
A subscript identifies text that is to be
displayed as a subscript when rendered.
Processing expectations
Formatted inline. Subscripts are usually printed in a smaller font and shifted down with respect to the baseline.
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
- any attribute
Any attribute in any other explicit namespace
Parents
These elements contain subscript: abbrev, acronym, address, artpagenums, attribution, authorinitials, bibliocoverage, biblioentry, biblioid, bibliomisc, bibliomixed, bibliomset, bibliorelation, biblioset, bibliosource, bridgehead, citation, citebiblioid, citetitle, city, confdates, confnum, confsponsor, conftitle, contractnum, contractsponsor, contrib, country, edition, email, emphasis (db._emphasis), emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, fax, firstname, firstterm (db._firstterm), firstterm (db.firstterm), foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase), givenname, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db._glossterm), glossterm (db.glossterm), holder, honorific, inlinestagedir, issuenum, jobtitle, label, line, lineage, link, literal, literallayout, mathphrase, member, meta (db.meta.content), olink, optional, orgdiv, orgname, otheraddr, othername, pagenums, para, personname, phone, phrase (db._phrase), phrase (db.phrase), pob, postcode, primary, productname, productnumber, publishername, quote (db._quote), quote (db.quote), releaseinfo, remark, revnumber, revremark, secondary, see, seealso, seriesvolnums, shortaffil, simpara, state, street, subscript, subtitle, superscript, surname, templatename, term, termdef, tertiary, title, titleabbrev, trademark, uri, volumenum, wordasword, year.
Children
The following elements occur in subscript: text, abbrev, acronym, alt, anchor, biblioref, coref, date, emphasis (db._emphasis), firstterm (db._firstterm), footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), glossterm (db._glossterm), indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, olink, phrase (db._phrase), quote (db._quote), remark, subscript, superscript, trademark, wordasword, xref.
See Also
Related elements: equation, informalequation, inlineequation, superscript.
Examples
1 |<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>|<title>Example subscript</title>||<para>Thirsty? Have some H<subscript>2</subscript>O.5 |</para>||</article>
Thirsty? Have some H2O.