Re: Subscript vs SubscriptBox
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- Subject: [mg69036] Re: Subscript vs SubscriptBox
- From: bghiggins at ucdavis.edu
- Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 01:24:20 -0400 (EDT)
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Chris,
Subscript is a Mathematica operator that has no bulit-in evaluation
rules associated with it; CirclePlus is another example. In contrast
the operator Times does have evaluation rules associated with it.
SubscriptBox is the box representation of Subscript obtained by
ToBoxes[Subscript[x,y]
SubscriptBox[x, 3]
while
ToBoxes[CirclePlus[x,y]]
gives
RowBox[{x, â??, y}]
Hope this helps,
Cheers,
Brian
Chris Chiasson wrote:
> Could someone explain in detail what the difference between Subscript
> and SubscriptBox is? FullDefinition was not too helpful. The help for
> Subscript redirects to SubscriptBox.
>
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