Yes, this relies heavily on the fact that subscripts are small/compact and can borrow meaning from their STEM uses. Doing it as superscripts, for example, probably wouldn’t work as well, because we don’t use superscripts for this sort of thing & already use superscripts heavily for other things like footnotes, while some entirely new symbol or layout is asking to fail & would make it harder to fall back to natural language. (If you did it as, say, a third column, or used some sort of 2-column layout like in some formal languages.)
How are you doing inflation adjustment? I mocked up a bunch of possibilities and I wasn’t satisfied with any of them. If you suppress one of the years, you risk confusing the reader given that it’s a new convention, but if you provide all the variables, it ensure comprehension but is busy & intrusive.
Yes, this relies heavily on the fact that subscripts are small/compact and can borrow meaning from their STEM uses. Doing it as superscripts, for example, probably wouldn’t work as well, because we don’t use superscripts for this sort of thing & already use superscripts heavily for other things like footnotes, while some entirely new symbol or layout is asking to fail & would make it harder to fall back to natural language. (If you did it as, say, a third column, or used some sort of 2-column layout like in some formal languages.)
How are you doing inflation adjustment? I mocked up a bunch of possibilities and I wasn’t satisfied with any of them. If you suppress one of the years, you risk confusing the reader given that it’s a new convention, but if you provide all the variables, it ensure comprehension but is busy & intrusive.