General ⇒ address with "~"

[nir_bz]

Hi.

I wish to add an hyperlink to the following address : http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~dan/

The LaTEX line I use for that is :
http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/$\sim$ dan/

However, when I click the link at the PDF document, it doesn't work ...
The "~" symbol ruins it ...

How can I overcome this problem ?!?

Thank you ...

[localghost]

As you may know from ASCII code, every character of a font has its number. In LaTeX you can get access to every symbol with a simple command.

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\symbol{num}

where num is a number from 0 to 127 (or 0 to 255, respectively). Now you can typeset the tilde by using this command.

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\symbol{126}

And finally you have the complete URL.

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http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/\symbol{126}dan/

[nir_bz]

Thanks ...

The address in the PDF appears correct ... but when I click the link, it directs me to the following adress :
http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/%CB%9Cdan/

The problem is that the tilde is changed ...

How can I avoid this ?

[localghost]

The document symbols-a4 suggests a predefined body-text symbol which might help.

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\textaciitilde

The url package could also be helpful.

[nir_bz]

Thanks

I used the URL package and it does the job ...

[SmithWillSuffice]

You can use tilde's in url's without loading the url package, just use hyperref, and follow the guidance here:

http://www.latex-community.org/forum/vi ... 63&p=47374

for getting tilde's to display in the typeset version of the url. The link itself should work fine if you use pdflatex and a sensible pdf reader.