[hlx] tilde in URL arguments

[Peter M. <pdm...@br...>]

On 23/11/2004, at 20:09, tom sgouros wrote:

> ...
> I'd also be interested to know whether anyone else thought that making
> tildes special in an \xlink command is a good idea.  I for one have
> lots of old text around that uses \~{}.

I agree that \~{} should continue to be interpreted as a tilde in a 
URL, so as not to break old code.

But I hope that doesn't prevent a tilde being interpreted verbatim in a 
URL when it is NOT preceded by a backslash.

Anyway, I'll enter it as a feature request.

-- Peter