Vincent Lefèvre's TeX/LaTeX Page

The tilde \textasciitilde from the Computer Modern fonts (used via the ae or aeguill package) is too high. To get a tilde at a better height, one can define virtual fonts, as described below. Thanks to Josselin Noirel for his help.

Such virtual fonts based on the ae package can be created from this simple shell script. Note: Josselin advised me the Latin Modern fonts (see this solution on his page, in French), but I preferred to base on the ae package as it is generally installed by default, which is not the case of the Latin Modern fonts. Then the generated files must be installed in standard directories or directories listed in the environment variables TFMFONTS (for the *.tfm) and VFFONTS (for the *.vf).

To use these virtual fonts, install the ltae.sty file in a standard directory or a directory listed in the environment variable TEXINPUTS, and add to your LaTeX file: \usepackage{ltae}. Note: ltae automatically includes ae and can be used in addition to aeguill.