On May 13, 2013, at 3:51 PM, PDV <paul.vall...@colorado.edu> wrote: >> Hello all! I apologise if this has been asked to death, but is there any way >> to get a normal looking tilde? Like >> this --> ~? I want to use it instead of saying "approximately" but when I >> use the keyboard tilde (\textasciitilde) it appears at the top of the line >> in the pdf output instead of the middle where I want it. I've tried the >> tilde math symbol as well ($\sim$) but it's a bit too fancy haha. Any ideas? > > I have figured this out. In your preamble use: > > \usepackage{tipa} > > and then instead of the tilde use: > > \textsuperimposetilde{} > > in ERT.
Math mode → \text<space> → ~ does the trick without ERT.