On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 11:46:06AM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Martin Vermeer wrote: > > No Uwe, you are IMHO mixing up two conceptually different classes of > > sub/superscript. The chemistry stuff is not math, but similar to math, > > let's say "formula-like", a visual mini-language. It would deserve its own > > machinery, that gets the roman right, knows the periodic table and allows > > for isotope weights top left. It should probably support some chemistry > > package for LaTeX (which I am not familiar with). > > Right. Something like the bpchem package should be used to provide proper > markup for chemical formulae. > > Actually, it should not be too hard to set up some basic chemical.module.
But that would again be flexinset = text based, right? The existing math infra is so much more suited for this. > Jürgen - Martin