How to install XyMTeX to work with TeX Live on Windows 7

Question

I write my reports with LaTeX. I use TeXmaker plus TeX Live distribution. I want to use XyMTeX in a document when I wanna use \usepackage{xymtex} but there are errors. I don't know anything about how to install a new package. I'm new to LaTeX but I'm well experienced with Windows

Answer 1

For me, installing XyMTeX worked well enough using the .zip file containing the latest version. What I did:

• Download the .zip file
• Extract it
• Copy the entire contents (xymtex folder) to my local TeX tree. On Windows with TeX Live, that is %USERPROFILE%\texmf (Linux ~/texmf, Mac ~/Library/texmf).

The .zip file contains the code plus source, but as it works without further unpacking I would just use as-is. Following the above steps, the simple demo

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xymtexpdf}
\usepackage{chmst-pdf}
\begin{document}
\Rtrigonal{0==C;1D==O;2==Cl;3==F}
\decalinevb{1D==O;2FB==C;2GA==H}
\end{document}

works fine using pdfLaTeX. (Note: the XyMTeX manual has xymtxpdf as the package name, but this seems to be erroneous as the file is called xymtexpdf.sty.)