On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 02:23 -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> \~ is the plain TeX macro for placing the ~ accent. Try \~a etc. The 
> correct way to access a tilde is \lettertilde and \texttilde (or 
> \textasciitilde) depending on what glyph you want.
> 
> Aditya

Thanks Aditya. If I had more time, I'd be updating the wiki and pdfs
with all the answers to these questions.

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