Take the 2-minute tour ×  I'm trying to convert some of my
lecture slides to LaTeX. What's the best way to convert a number
of slides (similar to the one below) into nice notes? I am aware
of mhchem and chemstyle, but I don't think either does what I
want.  I also have ChemDraw, but creating each of these seems
like an extremely slow process unless I'm just missing some
features. Is ChemFig a good alternative?
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Joseph Wright's chemstyle documentation, section 8, has some
thoughts on this. He ends up on ChemDraw, but your situation and
needs may differ. –  Mike Renfro Mar 6 '12 at 16:51 add comment
3 Answers  Yes chemifg is a great tool. But as well as almost
every code to picture system the syntax is not trival. Please
consider the following example. You can easily see, that chemfig
syntax follows a logical and human readable syntax, but will
become extremely complex for larger structures. And so far as i
can see chemfig is the easiest system fo