2013/5/13 PDV <paul.vall...@colorado.edu>
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Alex
>
> I have figured this out. In your preamble use:
>
> \usepackage{tipa}
>
> and then instead of the tilde use:
>
> \textsuperimposetilde{}
>
> in ERT.
>
> This gets me a "normal" looking tilde for my uses.
>
Also have a look at this FAQ:
http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/SpecialSymbols#tilde
Jürgen
>
> - PDV
>
> rettie <alex.rettie@...> writes:
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