TextBox

Literal text inside boxes, set as text rather than read as tokens.

TextBox("text")Literal text inside boxes, set as text rather than read as tokens.

Typed signatures

Type	Package	Applies
(string, expression*) -> boxes	boxes	always

Domain: Boxes

Details

• Where Wolfram quotes a string inside a string ("\"otherwise\""), this is a head of its own. Wolfram's own TextBox is undocumented, so this one's meaning is ours.
• ShowStringCharacters -> True shows a string value with its quotes (MathML's ms).

Examples

Basic #

a box is inert: it evaluates to itself

live ↗

In$\mathrm{TextBox}(\text{otherwise})$Out$\mathrm{TextBox}(\text{otherwise})$

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See also: RowBox, StyleBox