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 -----Original Message----- From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl [mailto:ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl] On Behalf Of Mojca Miklavec Sent: 25 October 2005 19:57 To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Subject: [NTG-context] TeX & chemistry (was: alignment of figures) Jörg Hagmann wrote:
I use "Chemdraw", save as .pict and finish it in Illustrator. I will eventually look into PPCHTEX, but at the moment struggling with ConTEXt is all I can do. There is a problem with my method: the formula saved as .pict look awful (bonds shifted, atoms not aligned etc.) and I have to correct everything by hand in Illustrator. I am sure PPCHTEX would do a better job. On the other hand, if I switch the formulae should look the same (bondlength, thickness, font etc.) as the ones I already did (and don't want to do again). I suppose that's feasable?
I may be wrong, but I doubt that PPCHTEX would satisfy your needs. It's a complicated notation which is not flexible enough (I gave up since there were quite some cases for which I wasn't able to draw what I wanted to.) XymTeX is more powerful, but not supported by ConTeXt (although you can still draw single formulas in LaTeX and import them into ConTeXt as pictures) and still with very complex notation. (I would say that all you need is a better export from Chemdraw, but as this is a proprietary software I doubt that there are any specifications how to write an exporting module. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I wish I were.) 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. Mojca _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.361 / Virus Database: 267.12.5 - Release Date: 24/10/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.361 / Virus Database: 267.12.5 - Release Date: 24/10/2005