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subElement
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Renders text in subscript.

The text is rendered smaller and its baseline is lowered.

Example

Revenue#sub[yearly]
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Parameters
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typographic
bool
Settable
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Whether to prefer the dedicated subscript characters of the font.

If this is enabled, Typst first tries to transform the text to subscript codepoints. If that fails, it falls back to rendering lowered and shrunk normal letters.

Default: true

View example
N#sub(typographic: true)[1]
N#sub(typographic: false)[1]
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baseline
length
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The baseline shift for synthetic subscripts. Does not apply if typographic is true and the font has subscript codepoints for the given body.

Default: 0.2em

size
length
Settable
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The font size for synthetic subscripts. Does not apply if typographic is true and the font has subscript codepoints for the given body.

Default: 0.6em

body
content
RequiredPositional
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The text to display in subscript.