Re: PPCHTeX Bug?

[Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec1@email.si>]

In my opinion - it's not only its complexity preventing the users from 
using it, but also it's insufficient flexibility. As long as I 
understood the manual (and tried to draw some formulas), it is possible 
to create a certain subset of images, which covers the most needs, but 
certainly not all of them (there's no way to make such a trivial thing 
as a thetraedral or trigonal angle - 109.5 and 120 degrees).

see: http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-ppchtex/2002/000002.html

Even the ones with lots of experience gave up.

Perhaps chemistry is too complex to be applied easily without some help 
of graphical tools. SMILES 
(http://www.daylight.com/dayhtml/smiles/ssmiles.html) could be a 
solution, say

    \startSSMILES
    CC(=O)O
    \stopSSMILES

producing a nice picture of acetic acid (using metafun), but perhaps 
still not serving all the puposes a chemist needs.

Mojca

Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> I believe your problem is that ppchtex is a very specialistic package
> and there are not that many people using it to it's full capacity. As a 
> result of that, there isn't that much expert knowledge available. Personally,
> I don't understand any of it. Luckily, the only chemical stuff I have ever had 
> to typeset could be done by cut&paste and making trivial changes to the 
> examples in the manual.
> 
> Greetings, Taco
> 
> On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 07:47:18 +0200, Thomas wrote:
> 
>>Hi to all,
>>
>>One week is gone and I got no answer, no comment to my problems!
>>What's going wrong!