Re: Couple of naive questions
On 1/4/07, Brett Viren <bv@bnl.gov> wrote:
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:
[...]
Xymtex is unfortunately undistributable [0], but it's really cool. Its web page
is here: http://imt.chem.kit.ac.jp/fujita/fujitas3/xymtex/indexe.html
[0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/12/msg00029.html
If you insist on a .deb for it, I wrote an installer package (really more of
a framework) that will build one on your machine. See
http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/cernlib/nonfree.html#mc
(The motivation was that I needed organic structures in my Ph.D
thesis.)
The page is mainly about the undistributable Cernlib Monte Carlo
libraries, but read through to the bottom of that section for Xymtex. You'll
only need the xymtex-installer-data and ancis unofficial packages
and their dependencies, not montecarlo-installer-data. Take note
that the generated xymtex .deb has its own set of deps and
recommends that you'll need to install before dpkg -i'ing it.
best regards,
--
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