Dear Oliver > The Wikipedia records come with structural formulae which prompts the > idea to use chem.pic in the groff distribution (which already has a > handful of sctructures) along the calling convention of my little > package yesterday. Say, \*[S:C2H5OH] would produce the structural > formula for ethanol while \*[N:C2H5OH] presents the [english] name.
Give an identifier, depict the structure -- this sounds like openbabel,[1] a popular format interconverter which can generate .svg files. No wonder there is LaTeX package `chemobabel`[2] to provide an additional bridge between the two worlds. Depending the intent pursued, it can be good for the reuse and share of files already at disposition. Or it is not good enough for that schemes in ACS' _Organic Letters_ slightly differ to the the style in _Helvetica Chimica Acta_ (Wiley), or _Synthesis_ (Thieme), etc. mentioned in the earlier reply. Not to forget the "house style" some PIs like. Best regards, Norwid [1] https://github.com/openbabel/openbabel, https://open-babel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ [2] https://www.ctan.org/pkg/chemobabel
