[texhax] ppchtex: Need basic help.

[Robin Fairbairns]

> An answer to myself.
> 
> 16 =D0=98=D1=8E=D0=BD=D1=8C 2005 11:43 Volkov Peter wrote:
> > I have TeTeX-3.0 distribution installed on my system. But I have some
> > problem with ppchtex. I can not use it.
> >
> > In documentation that comes with ppchtex said that in Latex I should us=
> e:
> > \usepackage{m-pictex}
> > \usepackage{m-chemie}
> 
> For this packages I have to download styles from:=20
> http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/contrib/tex-contrib/Chem2/ppchtex/
> 
> And it seems to me that teTeX distribution does not have such styles...
> Right?

tetex has m-pictex.sty on the latex inputs path, but not m-pictex.tex
(which the .sty loads, and which hides away among the context macros
-- texmf-dist/tex/context/base/m-pictex.tex).  this is a bit sad
because i recommend m-pictex as a solution to the problems of using
pictex, in the faq.  i must mail thomas...though i'm not sure what the
solution is :-(

however, tetex seems _not_ to have m-chemie in any form.  more
interesting, context seems not to, either.  (at least, in the
distribution that we have on ctan.  i had got that far after your
first post, before i got distracted with "real" work.)

where are you told that ppchtex needs m-chemie?