texlive-chemobabel 2025.2

Convert chemical structures from ChemDraw, MDL molfile or SMILES

This package provides a way to convert and include chemical structure graphics from various chemical formats, such as ChemDraw files, MDL molfile or SMILES notations using Open Babel. To use this LaTeX package, it is necessary to enable execution of the following external commands via latex -shell-escape: obabel (Open Babel) inkscape or rsvg-convert (for SVG -> PDF/EPS conversion), pdfcrop or ps2eps (optional; for cropping large margins of PDF/EPS).

Outputs: doc, out
Website: https://ctan.org/pkg/chemobabel
Licenses: FreeBSD
Package source: gnu/packages/tex.scm
Builds: See build status
Issues: See known issues

Installation

Install texlive-chemobabel 2025.2 as follows:

guix install texlive-chemobabel@2025.2

Or install the latest version:

guix install texlive-chemobabel

The texlive-chemobabel package provides more outputs besides the default (out). You can install them by appending :output-name to the package specification. For example:

guix install texlive-chemobabel:doc

You can also install packages in augmented, pure or containerized environments for development or simply to try them out without polluting your user profile. See the guix shell documentation for more information.