Some TeX Developments

For the user

I write quite a number of LaTeX packages, some focussed on chemistry, others more general.  They are all available on CTAN:

• achemso: Support for submissions to American Chemical Society journals
• biblatex-chem: Chemistry styles for biblatex
• biblatex-nature: biblatex style for Nature
• biblatex-science: biblatex style for Science
• chemstyle: Schemes and style for chemistry
• notes2bib: Integrating notes into the bibliography
• pgfopts: LaTeX package options with pgfkeys
• rsc: BibTeX styles for Royal Society of Chemistry and Wiley journals
• siunitx: A comprehensive (SI) units package
• trivfloat: Quick floats in LaTeX

Keeping all of those up to date is sometimes a challenge, but I hope I do a reasonable job.

More experimental

I’ve been working a bit with LaTeX3, the experimental code of the LaTeX project. Getting to grips with the code, I’ve written a few packages that are experimental. These are all interesting (I hope), but I’m not sure that they are for general use: after all, LaTeX3 itself is experimental.

• keys3: A keyval-like system for LaTeX3
• numparse3: An approach to parsing numbers for
• xnotes2bib: An implementation of notes2bib in LaTeX3