[texhax] Chemistry molecular structures

[Steve Peter]

On Monday, Mar 1, 2004, at 11:48 America/New_York, John Simmie wrote:

> Note that nonsensical structures can be drawn with this package
> for example the structure headed \naphdrv[ob]
> has a pentavalent carbon atom ... even first year students shouldn't 
> be making
> a mistake like this!

And Emacs allows me to write nonsensical words and sentences (or even 
to write run-on sentences without punctuation).

> all the ones that I have seen do not have sufficient intelligence and 
> the
> requisite power to do chemical structures properly

Should not the students have sufficient intelligence to get the 
structures right? (And yes, I do believe that spelling checkers and 
various "features" of certain word processors *have* hurt students' 
ability to write well.)

Steve