Last modified: 2014-10-20 09:20:14 UTC
Currently, most chemical equations are represented in plain text or LaTeX (if there are complicated arrows, ions or symbols). These systems are cumbersome and difficult to use. Mhchem was developed as a solution for typesetting chemical equations, and comes with a quite intuitive syntax, e.g.: \ce{HCl + H2O -> Cl- + H3O+} It would be nice if we could use this package in the math environment, i.e. <math>\ce{C6H12O6 ->M[\Delta] 6C + 6H2O}</math>. Additionally, creating a <chem> parser hook to automatically put the expression into \ce{} would offer nice convenience. There may be security issues with this, however. I do not know enough texvc to say.
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(In reply to comment #0) > Currently, most chemical equations are represented in plain text or LaTeX (if > there are complicated arrows, ions or symbols). These systems are cumbersome and > difficult to use. Mhchem was developed as a solution for typesetting chemical > equations, and comes with a quite intuitive syntax, e.g.: > > \ce{HCl + H2O -> Cl- + H3O+} > > It would be nice if we could use this package in the math environment, i.e. > <math>\ce{C6H12O6 ->M[\Delta] 6C + 6H2O}</math>. Additionally, creating a <chem> > parser hook to automatically put the expression into \ce{} would offer nice > convenience. Yes, that'd be nice... but perhaps the best possible solution would be to have a <tex></tex> tag in addition, which will be agnostic as to what kind of TeX input it's getting. Then you can use *normal TeX markup in <tex>, including $...$ etc for math and \ce{} for chem *math markup in <math>, including \text{} for text and \ce{} for chem *mhchem markup in <chem>, including $...$ etc for math and \text{} for text
Just if someone would search for solution: Take a look at the bottom of site: http://wiki.biol.uw.edu.pl/w/Brudnopis#Pisanie_wzor.C3.B3w_chemicznych_z_u.C5.BCyciem_LaTeXa (found here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:PSt , there is also contact email given)
mhchem is available as an extension to MathJax. It may be worthwhile to add this support once MathJax is selected as the default rendering method.
Seems a very old request (from 2006). Please reopen if still needed.
@Physikerwelt shouldn't this just work in MathML mode now? Or did mathoid intentionally dop the extension?
