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From: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Tilde (~) in LaTeX
Message-ID: <187@sas.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 23:33:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: sas.187
Posted: Fri Oct  9 23:33:36 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Oct-87 05:36:47 EDT
References: <348@crin.crin.fr>
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.,Cary NC,25712
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Summary: It's an accent

In article <348@crin.crin.fr>, tombre@crin.crin.fr (Karl Tombre) writes:
> 
> How can I put a tilde in a  text formatted with LaTeX? That is, in a
> sentence, not in verbatin mode.

If you really need a naked tilda, put a tilda-accent over an empty character.
Of course, I can't imagina how you would want to use it except for things
like \~{n}, but you can do things like \~~ (put an accent over a tie) if
you really want.
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                                                         --Brian.
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