[ale] Tilde character in Latex

[lodi at mindspring.com (Ezra Lee)]

On Sat, 9 May 1998, Glynn Black wrote:

> address ... home.att.net/~blackgr/. It appears that tilde is a special
> character in Latex that can't be escaped or slashed as far as I have been able
> to tell. Seems Latex is determined to place the tilde over a character. If I do
...
> hoping for a tilde over a space, Latex balks. Any of you Latex users crossed
> this bridge before??

> Glynn Black	blackgr at worldnet.att.net

Perhaps you can use the similar math symbol: "\sim". It doesn't look
exactly like a tilde, I suppose.  

Ezra