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[Herbert Schulz]

On Jun 25, 2010, at 4:41 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> 
> Am 25.06.2010 um 10:11 schrieb <phillip.springer at gmx.de> <phillip.springer at gmx.de>:
> 
>> What do you mean with mixing them up?
> 
> 
> The code you gave
> 
>> \definechemical[adenin]{
>>  \chemical[SIX,B6,B1,+SB2,-SB3,EB3,+SB4,-SB5,EB5,Z35][N,N]
>>  \chemical[SIX,R6,RZ6][\SL{NH_2}]
>>  \chemical[SIX,MOV1,-SB1,EB1,+SB2,-SB3,EB4,-SS6,Z13,SR3,RZ3][N,N,H]
>> }
>> 
>> \setupchemical[axis=on,frame=on]
>> \startchemical
>>  \chemical[adenin]
>> \stopchemical
> 
> looks like ConTeXt syntax. Anyway, I tried it, commenting the loading of PSTricks and eTeX because the latter *is* already in pdfTeX and the former is not used, but see no real clues in the LOG file.
> 
> PiCTeX is being used. Once it needed tweaking the parameters to build a PiCTeX format. Maybe this is still true (PSTricks and TikZ/Pgf use vector graphics). The fault can also be due to a too modern ConTeXt...
> 

Howdy,

On my system this compiles fine with pdflatex but the diagonal lines are very raggedy. PiCTeX is very old (I was using it in the 1980's and I still have the printed manual :-)). I haven't tried with latex->dvips->ps2pdf. I wonder if there are newer packages (achemso?) that might be better although I'm not sure what the poster wanted to use it for (i.e., recompiling an old document or creating a new document).

By the way, Phillip, thanks for bringing your question here from the TeXShop Forum.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)