Re: [ferret_users] permille

["William S. Kessler" <william.s.kessler@xxxxxxxx>]

The oceanographic community no longer uses permille for salinity. We  
now use dimensionless salinity according to PSS-78 (e.g. http://www.seabird.com/FAQs/FAQsGeneralOceanographic.htm) 
. Most papers identify salinity with the unit "psu" (practical  
salinity unit). This can be controversial, with some people arguing  
that salinity has no units and should be shown as a pure number. I am  
not among these people, as I think "psu" is clearer, and certainly it  
is easy to write in Ferret. But I think most reviewers would complain  
about salinity cited in permille in text or figures to be published.

Billy K


On 31 Oct 2011, at 10:01 AM, Ansley Manke wrote:

> Hi -
> All of the special symbols available to you currently are in the  
> "symbol fonts". The Math font has a percent sign but I don't see any  
> that include a permille sign.  I think you'll have to find a way to  
> use image-editing software and add that to your image after  
> producing it in Ferret.
>
> Ansley
>
> On 10/30/2011 8:11 AM, Wendy Wang wrote:
> > Hi ferret users,
> >
> > How can I make a permille sign in a label?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Wendy
> >
> >
> > Dr. Xiujun Wendy Wang
> > Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center
> > University of Maryland
> > 5825 University Research Ct
> > College Park, MD 20740
> > Ph: (301) 405 1532
> > Email: wwang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > http://essic.umd.edu/~wwang/