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Article #11353Re: PicTex, LaTex and Chemical formula
From: T.C. Zhao
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 1990 02:08
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 1990 02:08
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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. (ie 0.8pt instead of about 0.4pt).
>PicTexs' \linethickness command only seems to work with rule (vertical
>PicTex command list within the text after the \beginpicture does not
>make any difference. The PicTEx commands are inserted directly into
>the text without a \begin{figure} and without a \begin{picture}.
>
To get a thicker line, put \setplotsymbol ({\tenrm .}) before
you do the \plot. If it is still not thick enought, you can
change the plot symbol to {\bf .} or whatever that you like.
Basically PicTeX gets solid lines by putting the plotsymbol at tiny
distances. BTW, the default plotsymbol is {\fiverm .}.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!zhao From: zhao@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (T.C. Zhao) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.text Subject: Re: PicTex, LaTex and Chemical formula Keywords: Chemistry PicTex LaTex Linethickness Message-ID: <2796@uwm.edu> Date: 7 Mar 90 02:08:06 GMT References: <1404@gara.une.oz.au> Sender: news@uwm.edu Reply-To: zhao@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (T.C. Zhao) Followup-To: comp.text.tex Organization: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Lines: 20