Hi Stephen,
I recently experienced this issue while adding a reference in a beamer presentation using org-mode. It isn't elegant, but my workaround was to use \sim instead of the tilde character, at least for what is actually displayed in the document - you will still need to use tilde for the actual URL link.
Chris
On Oct 20, 2010 3:02pm, Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> With the following file (a.tex):
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> * Intro
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> This is an example file that I would like to export
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> Note that the URL has a tilde in it.
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> http://www.stat.uni-muenchen.de/~leisch/Sweave/FAQ.html
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> When I do "C-c C-e d" in this buffer, the latex -> pdf exporter displays
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> a pdf, but I see that the tilde in the URL appears above the following
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> character (l). If I click on the link it works just fine and takes me
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> to the page.
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> In the tex file, I see it has been exported as:
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> \href{http://www.stat.uni-muenchen.de/~leisch/Sweave/FAQ.html}
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> {http://www.stat.uni-muenchen.de/\~leisch/Sweave/FAQ.html}
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> (my line breaking added). Is the above expected behaviour? Do I have to
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> mark up my URLs differently? Org mode recognises it as a url, judging
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> I often use url to format URLs, i.e. this works just fine:
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> \url{http://www.stat.uni-muenchen.de/~leisch/Sweave/FAQ.html}
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> Thanks, Stephen
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