[texhax] lower tilde

[Karl Berry]

    My next problem which I haven't isolated yet is that HyperLaTeX doesn't 
    seem to like the url package.

I'm not sure what you mean by "hyperlatex".
To get hyperlinked references of many sorts, forget about url.sty.
Instead, put

\usepackage{hyperref}

as the *last* package loaded.  That's it(*).  You can then say
\url{http://tug.org} and it'll come out as a live link in pdf.
(And, tilde's will come out in typewriter. :)

Or did you have something else in mind?

Best,
karl

(*) Actually, I use
\usepackage[breaklinks,colorlinks,linkcolor=black,citecolor=black,
            pagecolor=black,urlcolor=black]{hyperref}
to allow line breaking in url's and eschew all the different colors(**)
which hyperref uses for all the different kinds of links, which I
personally find distracting.

(**) But If you like colors, I recommend a dark red, which is
distinguishable on screen and prints as nearly-black instead of faded
grey on b&w printers:
\usepackage{xcolor}
\definecolor{mycolor}{cmyk}{0.28,1,1,0.35}
\usepackage[breaklinks,colorlinks,linkcolor=mycolor,citecolor=mycolor,
            pagecolor=mycolor,urlcolor=mycolor]{hyperref}