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I'm using chemnum to keep track of my compounds in my thesis, and there are certain instances where I have a group of compounds that differ by a single substituent. Ideally, I would like to be able to define the suffixes used for subcompounds like so:

documentclass{article} 

usepackage{chemnum} 

setchemnum{replace-style=bfseries} 



begin{document} 

A class of compounds cmpd{substituted} can have several R groups as substituents. 

I would like cmpd{substituted.methyl} and cmpd{substituted.phenyl} to appear as 

cmpd{substituted}$cdot$Me and cmpd{substituted}$cdot$Ph both here in the text 

and when using replacecmpd{} with my .ps files. 

end{document} 

Is there any way to edit the counter representation when declaring a subcompound? Or can it be edited after subcompound declaration?

Thanks!

I know nothing about chemnum and EVEN LESS about LaTeX3. But since the package is written in LaTeX3, I played with things a bit, and came up with...something. It doesn't answer your question fully, but may give you ideas on how to proceed.

I created a new label format called cmd that calls upon blah:n and made cmd the default representation for sub-counters. The blah:n macro takes an argument, converts it to Alph and wraps a csname around it, so that the first substituent is defined with CMDA, the second with CMDB, etc. How to make this work across different primary groups etc. is well beyond the scope of my knowledge.

documentclass{article} 

usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

usepackage{xparse}

usepackage{chemnum} 

setchemnum{replace-style=bfseries}

defCMDA{$cdot$Me}

defCMDB{$cdot$Ph} 

ExplSyntaxOn

cs_new:Npn blah:n #1 {cs:w CMDint_to_Alph:n #1cs_end:}

newcmpdcounterformat {cmd}   { blah:n }

tl_set:Nn

            l__chemnum_default_subcounter_representation_tl

            {cmd}

ExplSyntaxOff

begin{document} 

section{First}



A class of compounds cmpd{substituted} can have several R groups as substituents. 

I would like cmpd{substituted.methyl} and cmpd{substituted.phenyl} to appear as 

cmpd{substituted}$cdot$Me and cmpd{substituted}$cdot$Ph both here in the text 

and when using replacecmpd{} with my .ps files. 



end{document}