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 <address@hidden> wrote: > With the following file (a.tex): > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > * Intro > > > > This is an example file that I would like to export > > Note that the URL has a tilde in it. > > > > http://www.stat.uni-muenchen.de/~leisch/Sweave/FAQ.html > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > When I do "C-c C-e d" in this buffer, the latex -> pdf exporter displays > > a pdf, but I see that the tilde in the URL appears above the following > > character (l). If I click on the link it works just fine and takes me > > to the page. > > > > In the tex file, I see it has been exported as: > > > > \href{http://www.stat.uni-muenchen.de/~leisch/Sweave/FAQ.html} > > {http://www.stat.uni-muenchen.de/\~leisch/Sweave/FAQ.html} > > > > (my line breaking added). Is the above expected behaviour? Do I have to > > mark up my URLs differently? Org mode recognises it as a url, judging > > by the font locking. > > > > > > > > I often use url to format URLs, i.e. this works just fine: > > \url{http://www.stat.uni-muenchen.de/~leisch/Sweave/FAQ.html} > > > > Thanks, Stephen > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > > address@hidden > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >