[OT] getting a ~ character in LaTeX
Douglas Bates <bates at stat.wisc.edu> writes:
I am writing course notes in LaTeX. In the part where I am describing
model-fitting functions in R I want to use a ~ character inline. If I
am displaying an example of R code in its own environment I use the
alltt environment, which protects the ~ character. I have forgotten
how to protect the ~ when I am writing something like
The operator `~' is used to define a model formula in \R.
The left hand side is evaluated as the response. The right hand
side can consist of several \Emph{terms} with special meanings
I welcome suggestions.
I have at a similar spot:
As mentioned earlier, e.g.\ in connection with boxplots and
stripplots, the argument to |lm| is a \emph{model formula}, in which
the tilde symbol (|~|) should be read as ``described by''.
(with \usepackage{shortvrb} and \MakeShortVerb| )
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