What’s new in chemmacros v5.6?
Version 5.6 (2016/05/02) of chemmacros comes with a whole bunch of improvements and changes – no breaking changes, though. Here’s an overview over the changes:
Tag: chemistry
New chemmacros module “polymers”
As of version 5.5 the chemmacros package includes a new module named polymers. Currently it mostly defines a few macros for usage in the \iupac command (provided by the mandatory nomenclature module) such as
chemmacros v5
I published version 5 of chemmacros nearly two months ago and so far the transition seems to have been a lot smoother than I anticipated. There have been a few support emails and posts on TeX/LaTeX stackexchange but nothing too serious.
Carbohydrates
Since a few weeks I’m working on a package using chemfig as a backend that allows a simple yet flexible input syntax for typesetting carbohydrates. My draft at this point allows the following: \documentclass{scrartcl} \usepackage{carbohydrates} \begin{document} \glucose[model=haworth,chain]\quad \glucose[model=fischer,chain]\quad \glucose[model=chair,ring] \end{document} which gives:
Blog article series about LaTeX and chemistry
I have written a series of blog posts about chemistry and LaTeX in the German blog TeXwelt.de. The series covers the basics with chemmacros, reactions and formulae with chemformula and mhchem, skeletal formulae with chemfig, safety data, numbering of compounds, and special kinds of diagrams.
Old new friend
A few weeks ago Shinsaku Fujita submitted a new update of XyMTeX to CTAN. Why is this worth mentioning? Because of two (or three) reasons:
chemmacros v4.0
My chemmacros bundle has reached version 4.0. The step to a new major version has been made for two reasons: 1) the bundle has been extended with a new package: chemgreek. 2) every sub package can now be loaded and used independently. In all versions 3.* the ghsystem package, the …
LaTeX Templates
Many of you might have wished to have proper templates for different types of documents. Indeed there is a website that offers a bunch of these, www.latextemplates.com.
The »bohr« package
Sometimes things go fast. This weekend a question on TeX.sx popped about how to create Bohr models with LaTeX.
Questions and Answers
In LaTeX-related forums every now and then an interesting question related to chemistry typesetting pops up. Here is a list of the ones I found most interesting. chemfig | Custom Arrows in Reaction Schemes chemfig | Cram Bond Bases Draw Bohr atomic model with electron shells in TeX? Can you …