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NAME
bist - a chemical drawing tool.
SYNOPSIS
bist [-c --convert-to | -f --input-file | -h --help | -v --version]
DESCRIPTION
Bist stands for bidimensional structures (in italian it sounds like "beast" in english) and is a
chemical drawing tool. It is focused on organic chemistry but may it may be useful also for chemists or
teacher as well.
Bist support many of the formalism used to describe molecoles structures like single bond, double bond,
stereospecific bond, charges, resonance arrows, lone pairs etc...
It can export both PostScript and PNG formats.
Currently portability is not my goal so only GNU/Linux platform is supported. However any effort
in this direction is appreciated so feel free to ask me about any porting question. Please remember
that bist is actually in a beta stage of development so i strongly suggest you to not using it except
for testing or hacking purpose. Bist is free software released under GNU GPL
OPTIONS
-c --convert-to format
Convert to "format" (currently PostScript, SVG, PNG);
-f --input-file file
File to convert (wildcard allowed but please escape it);
-h --help
Print usage information;
-v --version
Print information and exit.
BUGS
Please send bug reporting to: cage@katamail.com
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS
Bist is written by Valerio Benfante.
The logo has been designed by Luisa Russo.
We always need help (traslation, code improvement etc...) please write to cage@katamail.com to
contribute to this project.
COPYING
Copyright (C) 2005 Valerio Benfante.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
The logo is copyright 2005 Luisa Russo and is released under GNU GPL
12/03/2003 bist(1)