LaTeX: promille/permille sign

12 June, 2008 - 17:28
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I needed the LaTeX code for the sign that is called the "promille" sign in Dutch. It's the sign like the percent sign "%" ("procent" in Dutch), but with two circles at the bottom. Googling for "latex promille" was not very successful, so I thought this would be a good botsnack.
(Googling for "permille" or "(parts) per thousand", yield better results however.)

Anyway, I found two solutions:

  1. \textperthousand from the package textcomp, also provides \textpertenthousand but both only work in text mode, not in math mode.
  2. \permil from the package wasysym, works in both text mode as in math mode.

That's all folks

17 July, 2011 - 21:07

useful tool

André (not verified)

On the search for any latex symbols...

http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html

18 May, 2011 - 21:33

Thanks, works

Carlist Rieekan (not verified)

Thanks, works perfectly...
I've been looking for this char for the ages!

29 January, 2011 - 23:33

First Google hit + perfect solution (German!)

chessplayer (not verified)

As mentioned before, this is the same in German and the wasysym was needed for \Smiley anyway ...

Thanks and all the best,

chessplayer

21 June, 2010 - 12:05

Same thing for German :)

Anonymous (not verified)

Same thing for German :)

14 May, 2010 - 14:29

Thanks!

Charlotte (not verified)

Well, now it is the first google hit when searching for ''LaTeX promille'' (it's the same in Swedish) :)
The second option worked fine for me (wasysym package)!
/Charlotte

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