[ale] Any Chemical types here?

George Allen glallen01 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 27 14:03:28 EST 2010


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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