On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 19:35:53 +0000 Brian Barker <[email protected]> wrote:
> Some people think "~" is a tilde. (Hint: it's a swung dash.) Actually, it *is* a tilde (or at least looks identical to). See the section "Keyboards" here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde My keyboard only has one such symbol on it that I am aware of, so it has to be the tilde. Also see the section "Computing", which talks of it being an indicator of the home directory on Unix like OSen. The aforementioned key on my keyboard is used for this, ergo it must be a tilde. Beyond that (using unicode characters, say), I'm not sure I could tell the difference between them offhand. I'd probably use the tilde for all the various uses. Just saying :) And hence I'm in complete agreement that people often need a symbol that they know the look of (or maybe only sort of remember the look of), but don't know what it is called, or where to look for it. Paul -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
