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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Rodolfo Medina wrote:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> Years ago I found PPCHTeX, then I stopped my search not needing writing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> chemical for a while. How is the situation nowadays? Are there any powerful<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> TeX packages and applications for writing Chemistry papers? (I use plain TeX.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">There is a version of ppchtex in context. In TeX Live one inputs
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">m-ch-en.tex (for English interface) or m-ch-de.tex or m-ch-nl.tex.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">These input ppchtex.noc, which then inputs ppchtex.mkii.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Since, m-ch-en.tex is located in tex/generic/context/ppchtex/ , I assume
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">it is meant to work in plain TeX. Unfortunately, I cannot find any
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">documentation (and comments in the file are in Dutch), so I cannot say
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">how it is meant to be used. It seems to be based on pictex and pstricks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Good luck,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Daniel H. Luecking, Graduate Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Dept. of Mathematical Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">University of Arkansas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Fayetteville, AR, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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