[ale] Any Chemical types here?

[George L. Allen]

I think these may also be a good starting place if you wanted to give it
a shot:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX	# general latex info
http://www-math.mit.edu/~psh/#ExamCls	# specific to exam writing 

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:12:35PM -0500, Tom Freeman wrote:
>
>I have considered it, in a relatively mild sort of way. In some ways,
>there should be some advantages to writing tests in LaTEX. Whether those
>advantages would be sufficient to outweigh learning LaTEX in the first
>place might be argued ...
>
>For sure I needed the link to PPCHTEX however.
>
>Thanks
>
>On Mon, 27 Dec 2010, George Allen wrote:
>
>> 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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