Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
Hello!
I think every chemist which wants to use Linux faces with one serious problem:
structural formulae cannot be inserted into the text in editable way. Also I
think that only OpenOffice.org can provide this functionality today.
In MS Windows there are many GUI based editors, which can be used to create and
edit formulae incorporated into documents. In *nix-like systems there are no
OLE-like interfaces. Only possibilities for user are to insert formula as
image, SVG, or use OLE objects, incorporated in files which were created in
Windows, Objects, created by external software and inserted into document
cannot be edited after incorporation.
On the other hand, there is an extension for OpenOffice.org called 'quick
formule', which provides a language for textual description of chemical
structural formulae. It constructs formula as OOo Draw object from text string.
But created object cannot be edited as chemical structure. If a possibility to
store this text string alongside with drawing, it could be used for further
edit, and required functionality would be achieved.
Hi Konstantin.
I have looked into providing a somewhat similar functionality for
protein sequences, only in Calc. I would like to custom-render Calc
cells so the cells would display a graphical view of a protein sequence
instead of the underlying text. To translate this to your needs, imagine
that you could enter "ph'4"cy(2=O)(5=O)4"ph(4-Oh)(5-Oh)" in a
spreadsheet cell and apply a special cell formatting that lets Calc
automagically render the chemical structure directly in the cell (adding
images to a spreadsheet doesn't work since the images do not follow the
cells when you e.g. sort the underlying data).
You can follow the discussion at
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg09260.html. Niklas
Nebel suggests a method of letting an extension subscribe to events to
let it update/add images to a document - this might work for you if you
only consider Writer.
I haven't had time to look into this myself yet but if you are
interested in supporting Calc too, feel free to e-mail me directly or
post back here.
I had a look at "quick formule" and it's a very nice tool. However, to
be useful in the pharmaceutical industry the "formulas" would need to be
SMILES or some other standard format. Interfacing to OpenBabel or
similar tools could potentially solve this.
Cheers
-- Jan
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