Using a ~ in a text

Using a ~ in a text

[Ed Roozendaal]

Hello

I am trying to insert a tilde (~) into my document, but I receive an
error message. 

The log file says:

<snip>
! Missing $ inserted.
<inserted text> 
                $
<to be read again> 
                   _
<argument> ...soft.com/library/backgrnd/html/msdn_
                                                  bldcli~1.htm}
\getpublicat...

\doifelse ...ngb {#2}\ifx \!!stringa \!!stringb #3
                                                  \else #4\fi 
\complexstartpublicatie ...getpublicatie \@@pbna }
                                                  \egroup 
l.249 \stoppublicatie

? 
! Extra }, or forgotten $.
<argument> ...ary/backgrnd/html/msdn_bldcli~1.htm}
                                                   \getpublicatie \par 
\doifelse ...ngb {#2}\ifx \!!stringa \!!stringb #3
                                                  \else #4\fi 
\complexstartpublicatie ...getpublicatie \@@pbna }
                                                  \egroup 
l.249 \stoppublicatie

? 
! Missing $ inserted.
<inserted text> 
                $
<to be read again> 
                   \par 
\doifelse ...ngb {#2}\ifx \!!stringa \!!stringb #3
                                                  \else #4\fi 
\complexstartpublicatie ...getpublicatie \@@pbna }
                                                  \egroup 
l.249 \stoppublicatie

? 

Overfull \hbox (234.92967pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 249--249
[][] \font\
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/backgrnd/html/msdn$[]\font\ ldcli
 \font\ 1\font\ :htmB:Vaughn; []:\font\ (1997)\font\
:MicrosoftCorporation:$ 

\hbox(10.48323+4.07678)x369.88583, glue set - 1.0
.\hbox(10.48323+4.07678)x0.0
..\rule(10.48323+4.07678)x0.0
..\glue 0.0 plus 1.0fil minus 1.0fil
.\hbox(10.48323+4.07678)x0.0
..\rule(10.48323+4.07678)x0.0
..\glue 0.0 plus 1.0fil minus 1.0fil
.\penalty 10000
.\glue 0.0
.\font\ h
.etc.

[13.10]
<end snip>

I am trying to insert an url, but it has that thing in the filename. How
do I insert that character?

Tia
Ed

Re: Using a ~ in a text

[Taco Hoekwater]

>>>>> "Ed" == Ed Roozendaal <erooze@conceptsfa.nl> writes:

    Ed> Hello I am trying to insert a tilde (~) into my document, but
    Ed> I receive an error message.

    Ed> The log file says:

    Ed> <snip> ! Missing $ inserted.  <inserted text> $ <to be read

Suit you right that you get "$ inserted" errors if you try to link to a
Microsoft site :) 

But seriously, use \tildeletter.

Greetings, Taco

Re: Using a ~ in a text

[Johannes Hüsing]

On Fri 2000-05-26 (13:33), Ed Roozendaal wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I am trying to insert a tilde (~) into my document, but I receive an
> error message. 
> 
> The log file says:
> 
> <snip>
> ! Missing $ inserted.
> <inserted text> 
>                 $
> <to be read again> 
>                    _
> <argument> ...soft.com/library/backgrnd/html/msdn_
>                                                   bldcli~1.htm}

As TeX's error log linebreaks at the point where it fails to
treat a token accordingly, it can be seen from the log that the 
underscore poses the problem. This is because the underscore is 
interpreted by TeX as "set the following character or group as
subscript". This can only be done in math mode. Hence, the 
"Missing $ inserted" message as the dollar sign signifies a switch
to math mode. 

The "~" wouldn't have caused a problem by itself, as it is interpreted
as a non-breakable space in text mode -- certainly not what you want :).

Both "~" and "_" are not encoded in many text fonts except the 
typewriter fonts. Yet, \type{http://www.micros~1.com/} should do
what you  want.

Greetings

Johannes

Re: Using a ~ in a text

[Taco Hoekwater]

    iso-8859-1> As TeX's error log linebreaks at the point where it
    iso-8859-1> fails to treat a token accordingly, it can be seen
    iso-8859-1> from the log that the underscore poses the
    iso-8859-1> problem. This is because the underscore is interpreted

Totally missed that. I should read better. If the \type{...} doesn't
work (because of the way the bib module works this is actually quite
likely), you can use \underscoreletter. 

-- 
Taco

Re: Using a ~ in a text

[Hans Hagen]

At 01:57 PM 5/26/2000 +0200, Johannes Hüsing wrote:

>typewriter fonts. Yet, \type{http://www.micros~1.com/} should do
>what you  want.

or \url or \hyphenatedurl

Hans

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