txlutera@crdc.ARPA (LT. Thomas Luteran) (05/07/85)
Does anyone know of any available troff preprocessors, similar to eqn and table, to provide formatting of chemical symbols and structures (such as rings, chains,etc.)? Does anyone have experience that they are willing to share in writing such a preprocessor? The system I will be working with uses a Xerox 9700 laser printer and a formatter called xroff (troff for the Xerox printer). Any information or comments will be appreciated. Tom Luteran (301) 671-3688
hody%dalcs%dartmouth.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA (Reg Hody) (05/10/85)
Tom;
Your best bet might be to get LaTeX. It's a set of TeX macros,
it's free, and supposedly you can define arbitrary layouts (in your case
on the molecule level) and piece them together. If you don't have LaTeX/TeX
you can get it from mackay@uw-june (they charge an $85 duplication and
administration fee for the tape, or you can get it by anonomous ftp) and
I believe there is a driver for the XEROX. TeX is fairly easy to put up
(at least under 4.2), and it seems to be what you are looking for.
reg
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