How do I make a subscript font?

[Radiance_Jon]

I'd like to display some variable names with their subscripts.  Is there a method for doing this?

[smercurio_fc]

Unfortunately, there's no "subscript" style from the Font menu. There have been a number of occasions where this would have been handy. An alternative may be to use a font that's actually made to look like a subscript. Don't know if one exists, but worth looking for on the ol' Google.

[Nick R]

As was already mentioned, LabVIEW does not support subscipts. There is a discussion forum about this topic here.

[Radiance_Jon]

I know how regular forum-goers HATE when people re-post questions, but honestly, how much time did it take to get that answer whereas I searched and searched without any luck at all.  When you weigh out the fact that some nice gentleman helped out for a few seconds of his time compared with minutes to even tens of minutes of my own, I think the whole community would benefit from people taking taking two seconds to repeat an answer over someone spending forever sifting through bogus search hits. 

I did search for a while and came up with bupkes.  Very sorry to have reposted a previously asked question.

So when will NI support subscripts?... I mean, for software used in the scientific and engineering community you would think subscripts would have been supported in version 0.10 - just my 2 pennies.  LabVIEW is a great tool, it just seems to me that there are little things left out here and there.

[altenbach]

I am a regular and I don't mind repostings of questions, especially since the original thread is 5 years old. Many things might have changed since then. 🙂

As you found out, the forum search function is not always that great and we know that.

You also shouldn't take it as criticism if somebody is nice enough to provide a link to an earlier thread. It is just an enrichment of the current discussion! 🙂

Back to the question at hand:

Sometimes it is sufficient to just make the subscript part a smaller font as in the image here, just play with the font sizes.

If the label is static, you can always substitute an image of your desired text. As a plain image on the front panel background or even as tab labels and picture rings, for example.

Message Edited by altenbach on 07-11-2007 11:49 AM

[Radiance_Jon]

I don't think ANY search system is ever really great, they usually require creative operation.

No criticism taken, I was glad to see the other information.  I've just been on a few boards before and really gotten a talkin'-to when I asked a previously posed question... usually from other technical forums.  I never stick to any one forum because I'm always moving on to a different thing at work, I learn a lot of different stuff, but never a lot of one thing.

I appreciate your answer, thanks for the graphics... that always helps me out a lot!  I've never even seen the two functions you've shown here.  Looks like one is some sort of parser and the other an dynamic attribute controller.  I had no idea you could do that or that you could pick a start and end point in a string to alter text.  I actually didn't even think of highlighting only a portion and down-sizing it.

Thanks everyone for the help.

[altenbach]

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@Radiance_Jon wrote:
Looks like one is some sort of parser and the other an dynamic attribute controller. 

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The first node is a simple "format into string" and the second is a property node for the string.

Here's a quick draft in LabVIEW 8.0. Probably needs some work. 😉

You'll be surprised what else LabVIEW can do. 😄