[ale] Any Chemical types here?

Tom Freeman tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
Mon Dec 27 22:12:35 EST 2010


I have considered it, in a relatively mild sort of way. In some ways,
there should be some advantages to writing tests in LaTEX. Whether those 
advantages would be sufficient to outweigh learning LaTEX in the first 
place might be argued ...

For sure I needed the link to PPCHTEX however.

Thanks

On Mon, 27 Dec 2010, George Allen wrote:

> Have you tried latex?
>
> PPCHTEX: typesetting chemical formulas in TEX
> http://www.ntg.nl/maps/15a/10.pdf
>
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Tom Freeman
> <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:
>> I've got it, and had it. It does a lovely job of 3D displays, and is a joy
>> to use (so far). But my need is for the really old fashioned 2D, printed
>> projection type stuff, and so far, I haven't discovered how to get that
>> out of Avogadro.
>>
>> Thanks for the the lead tho.
>>
>> On Sun, 26 Dec 2010, Pablo Ordonez wrote:
>>
>>> Hi there
>>>
>>> Go to synaptic and try Avogadro. May be it is too much if you are only
>>> taken a course but if you want to pursue a career in the field, it is
>>> the right one.
>>>
>>> Pablo
>>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Tom Freeman
>>> <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have put this off longer that sanity suggests is safe: Anybody on this
>>>> list use one of the open source chemical structure editors on a regular
>>>> basis? Which one suits you best, given your needs?
>>>>
>>>> Back story:
>>>>
>>>> I start teaching a freshman level Organic/Biochem class to a crowd of
>>>> community college students in another week and change. I need a structure
>>>> editor with which to create chemical structures for import to
>>>> OpenOffice which is my currently chosen document creation solution (buzz
>>>> word central - sorry). For at least the first session, I will need to
>>>> create 50-60 molecular structures a week, on the budget of an adjunct
>>>> teacher at a state school (ie. no budget at all). Worse (in a way) it is a
>>>> small school, and I'm the only chemical type on staff at all. All my
>>>> chemical/education contacts are Windows types, and thus not terribly
>>>> useful in this case.
>>>>
>>>> Currently, I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 on the laptop, and Fedora 13 on the
>>>> desktop without development systems on either. I know how to get the
>>>> developement systems working under Fedora, but I've been less successful
>>>> with Ubuntu.
>>>>
>>>> Any clues running around the list?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the assistance in advance people. Even if I cann't get to
>>>> Atlanta functions, this is an awesome resource here!
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