Tim Opie wrote: > So my simple question is - how do I see the tilda as a normal tilda?
The tilde in LaTeX is \textasciitilde, but for url's you better use
\url{http://foo.com/~bar}
(and \usepackage{url} in the document preamble)
which allows correct linebreaking of url's
Regards,
Juergen.
