Is there a TeX/LaTeX symbol for 1/1000?

[Arthur Snoke]

In oceanography there is a symbol for 1/1000 which is the % with a
second zero next to the lower right-hand one -- sort of like
\%$_\circ$. My question is if there is a symbol for it? If not, is
there any improvement on what I have come up with? Given that I do
something like the above, how do I define it in latex2e and how do I
envoke my shorthand definition?

Thanks in advance,

Arthur Snoke

[David Carlisle]

The DC fonts contain an extra little `o' that is supposed to go next to
a % to make a permille, but better is to use the text companion fonts
(the tc* fonts in the dc font distribution) and to use the textcomp package
fonts/psfonts/ts1/textcomp.
which provides a \textperthousand command.

David

[Lorenzo Catucci]

Arthur Snoke (sn...@equake.geol.vt.edu) wrote:
: In oceanography there is a symbol for 1/1000 which is the % with a

: Thanks in advance,
Take a look at dc fonts; I think I've seen it there, even if I didn't
need it. Really, I think that TeX should now go reside on dc instead of
cm, but I fear that english speaking people will never try them...

Hope this helped you...

[PPA...@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu]

>Date: Mon, 9 Sep 96 20:35:11 CDT
>From: Dra. Lilia Del Riego <rie...@abnal.fc.uaslp.mx>
>Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 18:03:11 -0400
>From: Arthur Snoke <sn...@equake.geol.vt.edu>

>
>In oceanography there is a symbol for 1/1000 which is the % with a
>second zero next to the lower right-hand one -- sort of like
>\%$_\circ$. My question is if there is a symbol for it?

Yes, in the WASY font (and possibly others). You can get it from CTAN,
and it comes with files to use it in plain or LaTeX.

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