I'm playing a bit with drawing formulas in metafun, but my question is: are there any guidelines about how a nice formula should look like? (Yes, I have problems to decide how thick the lines have to be, how to draw a triple or a steric bond properly, which size of letters to use). Knuth did a marvellous job with drawing math formulae in TeX, there are many books about typography, but I've never seen anything about chemistry and I haven't found anyone who could answer me this question.
Keith McKay wrote:
A quick search on Google found this. Keith
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/ReSourCe/AuthorGuidelines/Illustrations/sect1. asp http://pubs.acs.org/books/artwork.shtml
(Although a bit late:) thank you very much for the two links above. The rules don't cover everything, but they represent an important part. (I didn't have any such list before and data like "space between bonds has to be 18% of bond length" are pretty useful and exactly part of those rules that I was looking for.) Thanks again, Mojca