Re: Couple of naive questions

[Brett Viren <bv@bnl.gov>]

Egon Willighagen <e.willighagen@science.ru.nl> writes:

> That is certainly possible. Check this PDF [1], which uses a LaTeX package 
> with source code like this:
>
> \put(-250,-450){\pyridinevi{3==OH}}
>
> for a pyridine derivative. It's using these packages:
>
> \usepackage{chemist}
> \usepackage{echem}

Checking my Latex Graphics Companion book I see two potentially
interesting chem related packages, xymtex and ppchtex.  They both let
you draw chemical bond diagrams.

> Not sure if they are in Debian, though.

The texlive-chemistry package might be useful. But, it doesn't appear
to have any of the packages mentioned above.  Here is the description:

 This package includes the following CTAN packages:
  bpchem -- Typeset chemical names, formulae, and numbering of chemical
   compounds.
  chemarrow -- Arrows for use in chemistry
  chemcompounds -- Simple consecutive numbering of chemical compounds.
  chemcono -- Support for compound numbers in chemistry documents.
  chemsym -- Macros for typing chemical symbols.
  mhchem -- Typeset chemical formulae/equations and Risk and Safety phrases

-Brett.