


This means that cut-and-paste from Mac's Preview into a browser fails. (previously known as a "non-spacing tilde", indicating its usage for accents over another character) and that is what Mac's Preview renders. Investigating further, I learned that the character that latex puts into the pdf file is not a regular tilde character but a "Combining Tilde" COMBINING TILDE Unicode: U+0303, UTF-8: CC 83 Tldr: To avoid some of the difficulties of typesetting a proper tilde ~ character, I recommend adding \usepackage command will display a URL with tildes correctly, but forces it to use a fixed-space terminal font, and there are times when you want to use a tilde somewhere besides in a URL.) I never use tildes to mean anything other than approximately in serious or otherwise important textual things.After wasting a lot of time on a related problem with LaTeXing a tilde, I thought I should record my results here in case it is a help to anyone else. It's ~your~ turn to clean up the cat puke, mwuahahaha

Hey did u no im a ~young lady~ according to the weird dude in the grocery store alley Omg I'm so ~~~hungry~~~ feed meeeee ~seven pizzas I like to imagine that the tildes are me making noodly arms when I say a word. If I use it like in my first sentence, with a tilde before AND after a word or phrase, and especially if used in excess, I mean it to convey a sense of fascetious emphasis. I also will use it with things that aren't numbers that I'm still approximating, as in, "I can't believe I already need to start working on my ~Christmas gift projects." ( because I don't do xmas myself and almost nobody I gift things to celebrates it either but it is still an excuse for presents) If used as a prefix, with no "closing" tilde, I still mean approximately, as in your example. I like to use tildes a ~lot~ in casual online communication.
