General ⇒ Tilde problem

[ITA793594]

On an IT keyboard to produce ~ i have to press ALT+126.
In Texniccenter it doesn't work! it produce a question mark!

Am I wrong!?

thanks!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

did you try AltGr together with +? Or Ctrl-Alt-+?

Stefan

[ITA793594]

i tried, but it doesn't work!
In other sofware ATL+126 works fine!

In Texniccenter, if I go anywhere in the menu, for example in Tools-Option-->Directory. And type ALT+126 in Default working directory , tilde appears!

[SmithWillSuffice]

Using \~{} or \textasciitilde{} in the text display part of \href urls produces a raised tilde, which is acceptable because the tilde is really a diacritic mark, and as such should be used in accenting characters. But this doesn't conform to normal document use of "~" in web documents and unix cmds. The web use of ~ based and the use of ~ the unix cmdl shortcuts is abnormal, but understandable, and you should be able to typeset them.

To fix this for your LaTeX document to look nicer you can try

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\usepackage{textcomp}
...
\texttildelow{}

But this produces a tilde symbol that now looks to low (understandable since it is still supposed to be a diacritic).

So my preferred method of typesetting "~" in url's, or, if you do not want to load this extra package during tex'ing, just define a mid-tilde in your preamble

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\newcommand{\midtilde}{\raisebox{-0.25\baselineskip}{\textasciitilde}}

Alternatively, you might use the url package,

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\usepackage[lowtilde]{url}

which uses a faked mid-tilde in urls using the maths \sim