Formatting subscripts and other things

Some default settings give expressions that can be made to look better with a few front-end tricks. This information can be found in Section 2.8.11 of the Help Browser. Here is an example.

SubscriptBox[α,"0s"]//DisplayForm

Notice the large space between "0" and "s". We can use -␣ between the zero and the "s" to make this space smaller. (The "-" is a negative-sign.)

SubscriptBox[α,"0s"]//DisplayForm

The above cell was entered with the keystrokes:

SubscriptBox[α,"0-␣s"]

We have a choice of how close we put the subscript elements.

SubscriptBox[α,"0-␣␣s"]

SubscriptBox[α,"0s"]//DisplayForm

And here we use three spaces.

SubscriptBox[α,"0s"]//DisplayForm