General ⇒ remove '~' as active character

[otoomet]

Occasionally I have use bibtex in Estonian locale. An annoying feature there is that tilde '~' is active, e.g. by typing '~s' you get Å¡ (scaron). It really annoys me when it happens with bibligraphies, because several bib styles use '~' as the space.

Is it easy to make tilde to a normal character (space)?

[countbela666]

Hi,

for the following considerations I assume that you are using the babel package with option estonian loaded to achieve Estonian language functionality.

If you only want to use the tilde in its original meaning, babel provides the shortcut ~~ for that purpose. Otherwise you could try the following:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[estonian]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\makeatletter
\def\tildeon{% switch on the "normal" tilde
  \let\orgtilde\@tilde
  \def\@tilde{~~}
}
\def\tildeoff{% switch back to estonian style
  \def\@tilde{\orgtilde}
}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
  foo~bar~olf\par
  \tildeon
  foo~bar~olf\par
  \tildeoff
  foo~bar~olf
\end{document}

Regards
Marcel

[otoomet]

Yess! Thank you!

The problem was that I haven't control over the way the bibliograpy is formatted by bibtex.