On May 13, 2013, at 3:51 PM, PDV <paul.vall...@colorado.edu> wrote:
>> Hello all! I apologise if this has been asked to death, but is there any way
>> to get a normal looking tilde? Like
>> this --> ~? I want to use it instead of saying "approximately" but when I
>> use the keyboard tilde (\textasciitilde) it appears at the top of the line
>> in the pdf output instead of the middle where I want it. I've tried the
>> tilde math symbol as well ($\sim$) but it's a bit too fancy haha. Any ideas?
>
> I have figured this out. In your preamble use:
>
> \usepackage{tipa}
>
> and then instead of the tilde use:
>
> \textsuperimposetilde{}
>
> in ERT.
Math mode → \text<space> → ~ does the trick without ERT.
