Accents\~

\~Command

Used in text mode to place a tilde accent over the next letter, such as in Spanish names or words.

\text{\~n}
Topic
Accents
Available in
textmacros
Kind
prefix
Allowed mode
text
Frequency
<0.01% of corpus formulasrank 235 of 263
Commonality
medium
Tags
decoration
Renderer support
PackageMathJaxKaTeXXeTeX
textmacrosMathJax: FullKaTeX: FullXeTeX: Full
About the test scope

Syntax#

\~m:T{a}text content

Argspec m:T — one mandatory argument. Reading argspecs

In TeXForm#

TeXForm parses this entry as prefix syntax; the package determines its argument specification.

See also#

  • \. textmacros
  • \' textmacros
  • \‘ textmacros
  • \’ textmacros
  • \" textmacros
  • \` textmacros
  • \^ textmacros
  • \= textmacros
  • \u textmacros
  • \v textmacros

Test cases#

textmacros
InputCaseMathJaxKaTeXXeTeX
\~{a}Positive · baselinePassPassPass
\~ aPositive · bare[0]PassPassPass
\~{a^2}Negative · neg:T[0]FailFailPass
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