Bug#351917: tetex-extra: \textasciitilde is too high in cmtt

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> wrote:

>> I don't think this is an issue where Unicode (or any other standard) can
>> help decide.  Instead, it's a question of font design.  And as to your
>> question, changing the font itself is a very bad idea, because people
>> rely on it being constant (and perhaps the license would even forbid
>> this without renaming the font).
>
> Then perhaps TeX/LaTeX should have a macro that provides a tilde at the
> right height.

The point is that "the right height" is a design decision, there is no
such thing as a technical correct tilde heigth independent of the font. 

> A Josselin's page, in French:
>
>   http://www.eleves.ens.fr/home/noirel/latex/astuces/astuces1.html#ast12
>
> (he has chosen to modify Latin Modern).

You should really contact the Latin Modern developers.

> Now, the problem is that these solutions are not standard, i.e.
> distributing a single .tex file is not sufficient.

Since the CM fonts won't be changed, any workaround will be
nonstandard. 

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)