The software maker said on Wednesday that it is releasing an add-on for the word processor that makes it easier to include labels, formulas, and chemical images into documents. Chem4Word, as the add-on is known, was introduced on Wednesday at the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society.
This isn't useful only in Chemistry. It should be useful for people in material science/condensed matter, as well as many others. I will have to check this out and see how easy it is to use. Now, it would be a lot more useful if it can also convert it to the appropriate HTML code...
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There is a LaTeX package that does exactly this. It's called mhchem and is actually really simple to use.
ReplyDeleteYou just start an equation the way you usually do (either inline with $some math$ or with \mbox{some math}) or with an equation environment (if, for instance, you want to write chemical equations). Then, you call the font ce with the appropriate command and voilà! You've got chemical symbols.
Plus, LaTeX2HTML will render it just as good in HTML.