Hi Stuart, I think what you get when you type ~ depends on the font you use. For instance, you can try the plain TeX character access in Palatino: \usetypescript [adobekb] [ec] \loadmapfile [context-base] \usetypescript[palatino][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[palatino,12pt] \def\mytilde{\char126\relax} \starttext F \mytilde G \stoptext Computer Modern fonts have the ~ 'elevated', I don't know why. You can lower it with \lower.8ex\hbox{\mytilde} to make the above example work with Computer Modern. Note that \mytilde is different from \~. (I don't know how to access \char126 more conveniently.) What you actually might want to get is what is called the swung dash (which is somewhat longer than the standard ~), but I am afraid it doesn't exist in all fonts. The proper way to go is probably via unicode, but again I'm a complete ignorant here. In fact, I hope somebody with more insight tells us the clean ConTeXt solution, please? Matthias On Jul 18, 2005, at 6:41 PM, Stuart Jansen wrote:

How do I get a keyboard style tilde? As in: ~sjansen The tilde character is roughly aligned with the middle horizontal part of the s.

\~ and \lettertilde produce a tilde that has been raised so that it can be used as an accent. I don't want that.

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