Text Formatting ⇒ Midline Decimal Point

[RikRaccoon]

A journal requires midline decimal points (e.g. 0·02). \cdot is available, but leaves a space either side. \!\cdot\! is an obvious fix, but not ideal. Any ideas of a better solution?

Thank you!

[localghost]

A quick fix would look like this.

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0{\cdot}02

Global formatting for decimal numbers can be done with the siunitx package (especially regarding numbers in tables)

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{siunitx}

\sisetup{
  output-decimal-marker={\cdot}
}
\begin{document}
  $0{\cdot}01$ \num{0.01}
\end{document}

Thorsten

[cgnieder]

Maybe you could use the siunitx for it?

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\sisetup{output-decimal-marker=\cdot}
\begin{document}

\num{.02} vs $0\cdot02$ vs $0\!\cdot\!02$ vs $0{\cdot}02$

\end{document}

It would have the advantage that you could change the layout afterwards easily if you'd wished to.