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URL with tilde character?
I tried \~, which doesn't work; the ~ will appear on top of the following letter. ~ will print nothing but an empty spot. What I want is to print a website link like www.website.com/~aname in my document using LaTeX.
How can I do it? Google didn't give me an answer.
\textbackslash produces a backslash in text-mode. The math-mode $\sim$ and \texttildelow (from textcomp package) are options for a lower tilde (while \~{} and \textasciitilde produce a raised tilde in text-mode)
The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List is your friend. The correct link seems to keep changing, but if you have a complete TeX Live installation, the command texdoc symbols-a4 will display your local copy.
\textbackslash and \textasciitilde are found in several places in the document, but the LaTeX 2e ASCII Table (Table 529 as of this writing) and the following discussion are a convenient resource for all ASCII characters. In particular, the discussion notes that \~{} and \textasciitilde produce a raised tilde, whilst the math-mode $\sim$ and \texttildelow are options for a lower tilde; the latter is in the textcomp package, and looks best in fonts other than Computer Modern. If you are typesetting file names or urls, the document recommends the url package.
Remember to delimit TeX macros from surrounding text, e.g. bar\textasciitilde{}foo.
As Werner already mentioned use the hyphens option and for the footnote do not use the sloppypar environment:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[hyphens]{url}
\usepackage[colorlinks,citecolor=black,linkcolor=black]{hyperref}
\begin{document}
foo\footnote{%
Toshiro Kohmoto and Yuka Koyama (2011). Photo-induced Effect in Quantum Paraelectric Materials Studied by Transient Birefringence Measurement,
Ferroelectrics~--~Physical Effects, Dr. Mickal Lallart (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-453-5, InTech, DOI: 10.5772/17132. Available from:
\url{http://www.intechopen.com/books/ferroelectrics-physical-effects/photo-induced-effect-in-quantum-paraelectric-materials-studied-by-transient-birefringence-measuremen}}
\end{document}
Best Answer
For typing URLs, you should import the
urlpackage:and then use the
\urlmacro:This will take care of all the details. Moreover, if you also use the
hyperrefpackage, you will get a nice clickable link in the resulting PDF.