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Title: Text Editor or Software for Chemistry work
Post by: noahjsc on October 01, 2020, 06:20:54 PM

Does anyone know of some good software or text editors to do chemistry work on? I have disabilities in relation written expression that makes my handwriting hardly legible. This makes doing work with pen and paper impractical. As such I typically do homework on keyboard. Im currently using Google docs as it has easy hotkeys for subscript and hyper script, however, I'm curious if there are better methods.

Title: Re: Text Editor or Software for Chemistry work
Post by: Meter on October 02, 2020, 07:39:58 AM

If you are willing to put in the time, you can use LaTeX with TeXStudio. There is a learning curve, but your assignments will look slick once you get used to it. Otherwise Microsoft Word has a pretty extensive equation function which works well for chemical equations as well, but I would go with the former any day.