Typesetting chemical structure formulas with the text formatter TeX/LaTeX

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Abstract

Methods are described to incorporate chemical structure diagrams into manuscripts prepared with the widely used text formatter TeX, a program that specializes in mathematics typesetting. The graphics capabilities of the LaTeX macros are used to draw the diagrams. Structures are input with keyboard characters; no graphics hardware is needed. The TeX program produces device-independent ASCII files to send to output devices. About 30 macros were written to facilitate the typesetting of common structural fragments such as branching patterns and alicyclic and heterocyclic rings. These macros permit optional substituents and multiple bonds. Fragments from different macros can be combined.

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