[texhax] Entering Tilda

[Tom Schneider]

>      In a paper I am writing, I need to specify a web address. This web
> address
> has the ~ character in it. How do get LaTeX to produce a ~ in the output. I
> tried \~ but that did not work.

$\sim$ works as does \~{}
eg
 http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov/\~{}toms/

they look a little different.

Tom

  Dr. Thomas D. Schneider
  National Cancer Institute
  Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Biology
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  toms at ncifcrf.gov
  permanent email: toms at alum.mit.edu (use only if first address fails)
  http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/