Because I had two people asking about it, I decided to write up some material on the CDK API for handling reactions. Here's a very brief preview:
The reaction equation, BTW, was created with the mhchem package for LaTeX, which comes with Debian with the texlive-science package, which I found thanx to this Writing Chemistry with LaTeX series.

Why is the left-hand side of the chemical equation in italics?
ReplyDeleteGood catch! No clue. I will look into this.
DeleteIt had to do with me using \cdot... I could just leave that out, and all worked well.
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