chemistry fonts

[hermanntrude]

I had a breakthrough today, so after I washed my hands and flushed the toilet, I went back to my office and solved a problem I've had for some time...

 

I used to avoid any equations with a delta on the arrow or a catalyst when doing my powerpoint slides for teaching. Today I figured out how to do them. I downloaded a free evaluation version of "font creator", and edited the already very good RSC.ttf file which I downloaded from the RSC's website. I now have a right-hand arrow with a delta on top, and a right-hand arrow with a Pt on top.

 

Any suggestions for other symbols I should create before my evaluation period runs out? When it's complete I'll make it available to you guys I guess...

 

the only slight drawback is that you have to install the .ttf file on every computer you use the font with, but that's easy to do

[frosch45]

I got that creator quite a while ago, and unfortunately, my trial has expired.

 

But one thing that I would not recommend doing hermanntrude

is telling your students about your little discovery

 

because one of my old teachers used to require handwritten notes for assignments, and I would just either type them (much much faster) or copy and paste them from online (extremely fast)

 

and of course, I just lined my printer up to accept notebook paper, and viola, notes in my handwriting that took about 10% of the time to write

 

 

and then after someone else saw what i was doing, they innocently asked how I had done it

 

so i innocently told them

 

 

and believe it or not, pretty soon there was like a group of 50 kids that would just trade off doing notes for a night, emailing them to each other, and they, having downloaded the creator, just put them in their own handwriting font and printed them

 

so I don't know if you personally care about something like that, but maybe another teacher in your school does

 

 

it was still pretty awesome

[hermanntrude]

I got that creator quite a while ago, and unfortunately, my trial has expired.

 

But one thing that I would not recommend doing hermanntrude

is telling your students about your little discovery

 

because one of my old teachers used to require handwritten notes for assignments, and I would just either type them (much much faster) or copy and paste them from online (extremely fast)

 

and of course, I just lined my printer up to accept notebook paper, and viola, notes in my handwriting that took about 10% of the time to write

 

 

and then after someone else saw what i was doing, they innocently asked how I had done it

 

so i innocently told them

 

 

and believe it or not, pretty soon there was like a group of 50 kids that would just trade off doing notes for a night, emailing them to each other, and they, having downloaded the creator, just put them in their own handwriting font and printed them

 

so I don't know if you personally care about something like that, but maybe another teacher in your school does

 

 

it was still pretty awesome

 

I tell my students that they're completely welcome to copy if they want to. I also point out that if they do they'll probably fail.

 

the only kind of copying I recommend is when you copy someone's method

[frosch45]

I tell my students that they're completely welcome to copy if they want to. I also point out that if they do they'll probably fail.

 

Exactly what started happening

[hermanntrude]

it didn't happen to my class. They caught on to what I meant. Perhaps mine are older?

[frosch45]

Yes, probably. I assume you teach at a university. We were much younger, 14-15 years old, just barely starting high school in 9th grade.

[hermanntrude]

i teach university courses but at a college. Transfer courses