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From: jwe@ut-emx.UUCP (John W. Eaton)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.text
Subject: Re: PicTex, LaTex and Chemical formula
Keywords: Chemistry PicTex LaTex Linethickness
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Date: 7 Mar 90 03:44:56 GMT
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In article <1404@gara.une.oz.au> ascott@gara.une.oz.au
(Tony Scott STPG) writes: 

> I am currently using PicTex within LaTex to draw chemical structures
> in a thesis. The lines drawn by PicTex would look a lot better if
> they were about double their width. [...]

Sorry, I can't help you with PiCTeX, but I can suggest a set of macros
for typesetting chemical structure formulas which work with either TeX
or LaTeX.  Here is a reference which briefly describes them:

@ARTICLE (
  AUTHOR = "Roswitha T. Haas and Kevin C. O'Kane",
  TITLE = "Typesetting Chemical Structure Formulas with the Text
           Formatter \TeX/\LaTeX",
  JOURNAL = "Computers and Chemistry",
  YEAR = "1987",
  VOLUME = "11",
  NUMBER = "4",
  PAGES = "251--271" )

I can send you a copy of the macros if you are interested.  There is a
significant amount of documentation (part of a thesis) which goes
along with them.  If someone can put them in an official archive
somewhere, please let me know.  (I'm not the author of the macros but
I was given permission to redistribute them.)

-- 
John Eaton
jwe@emx.utexas.edu
Department of Chemical Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas  78712