[ale] Any Chemical types here?

[Tom Freeman]

Oooohh!!! Nice links!

I'll be taking a lookie see shortly, but these look just lovely!

Thank you!

On Tue, 28 Dec 2010, George L. Allen wrote:

> 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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