# Create alternative \textdiscount

My purpose is to create \textdiscount using / and \cdot or .(dot). Can you help me?

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After from Christian Hupfer's Solution

• What is wrong with \textdiscount? – user31729 Nov 26 '17 at 11:19
• The format is too dense. It looks bad on page. – Özgür Nov 26 '17 at 11:25

Just use a 'proper' combination of \kern and \raisebox with em and ex units that scale accordingly to the currently applied fontsize.

The kerning of -0.2em will shrink the horizontal distance of . and / and the \raisebox will raise or lower the . according to the value. Use ex for vertical raising and em for horizontal shifts.

Adjust the values for best personal tastes -- the given values are just 'arbitrary' ones.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{textcomp}

\newcommand{\textdis}{\raisebox{1.2ex}{.}\kern-0.2em/\kern-0.2em\raisebox{-0.5ex}{.}}

\begin{document}

\textdis

{\large \textdis}

{\Large \textdis}

{\LARGE \textdis}

{\huge \textdis}

{\Huge \textdis}

Normal \textdiscount

And now bold:

\bfseries

\textdis

{\large \textdis}

{\Large \textdis}

{\LARGE \textdis}

{\huge \textdis}

{\Huge \textdis}

\end{document}


• \textdis means Please turn the page in Turkish. I also want to say hello again. – Özgür Nov 26 '17 at 11:33
• @Özgür: Do you mean the symbol % has the meaning of 'turn the page' in Turkish? – user31729 Nov 26 '17 at 12:39
• No, percentage symbol in Turkish is the percent symbol. This means that you only need to 'turn the page' of the new sign that comes from the dots and /. I hope I can express it correctly. I've added a picture. – Özgür Nov 26 '17 at 13:16
• @Özgur: I just used % since I was too lazy to look the unicode for \textdiscount up – user31729 Nov 26 '17 at 14:42