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LaTeX Cookbook

You're reading from   LaTeX Cookbook Over 90 hands-on recipes for quickly preparing LaTeX documents to solve various challenging tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784395148
Length 378 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stefan Kottwitz Stefan Kottwitz
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Variety of Document Types FREE CHAPTER 2. Tuning the Text 3. Adjusting Fonts 4. Working with Images 5. Beautiful Designs 6. Designing Tables 7. Contents, Indexes, and Bibliographies 8. Getting the Most out of the PDF 9. Creating Graphics 10. Advanced Mathematics 11. Science and Technology 12. Getting Support on the Internet Index

Writing chemical formulae

Chemical formulae and equations have a different style compared to mathematical formulae and equations. For example:

  • Letters mean atomic symbols and are written upright, unlike italic math variables
  • Numbers are commonly used in subscripts, indicating the number of atoms
  • We use a lot of subscripts and superscripts, and they should be aligned properly
  • We need also left subscripts and superscripts
  • We need special symbols such as for bonds and arrows for chemical equations

With basic LaTeX, it's hard to achieve all of this. Let's find a better way.

How to do it...

We will use the chemformula package. We will boldly go ahead and type some chemical stuff to see how it works. The LaTeX output will follow, so you may look ahead line by line if you like. Let's start:

  1. Begin with a document class of your choice, such as scrartcl of KOMA-Script:
    \documentclass{scrartcl}
  2. Load the chemformula package:
    \usepackage{chemformula}
  3. Start the document:
    \begin{document}
  4. We begin with...
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