[Tex/LaTex] tilde in hyperref url with \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

symbolstilde

By default, LaTeX typesets tildes "too high", but the hyperref package ordinarily corrects this behaviour for URLs (it vertically centers tildes, as expected). However \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} seems to break this, and the tilde is "too high" again.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\url{http://lyle.smu.edu/~tspell/jaws}
\end{document}

any idea how to fix this?

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If you

\usepackage{lmodern}

before

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

It will work as you expect. (see Correctly typesetting a tilde)

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[Tex/LaTex] Correctly typesetting a tilde

It all depends on what do you want this glyph to stand for.

If you want to use it in an url then add \usepackage{url} (or hyperref) to your preamble and then use \url{http://example.com/~user}.

If you want to use it inside a math formula as some kind of relation then use $a \sim b$ .

According to the "Comprehensive Symbols List", to get a vertically centered ~ you can use \texttildelow in any font other than Computer Modern, txfonts, and pxfonts. For example the following does the trick for typesetting a C++ destructor

\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{textcomp}

\texttildelow T

[Tex/LaTex] URL with tilde character

You should use the hyperref package (which uses url internally but improves on it). It will not only format the link but also place a real hyperlink into the PDF. With url alone the link is only normal text, but is probably recognized as hyperlink by your PDF viewer, but with the wrong code for ~. LaTeX tends to substitute the code of these special characters depending on the font you use instead of taking the ASCII code.

This works fine with Acrobat Reader:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\url{http://lyle.smu.edu/~tspell/jaws}
\end{document}

A funny thing is that %18 is the ASCII code for "CAN (cancel)", which doesn't make much sense and \char"18 isn't the tilde in the tt font. I can't follow how this specific code was produced.

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