A new stable version of the formula drawing program, Chemtool, is now
available at http://ruby.chemie.uni-freiburg.de/~martin/chemtool.html
in tar.gz and rpm (source,i386) formats. Debian packages are expected to
appear on debian.org within a few days.

Version 1.4.1 is known to compile and run on Linux and Irix , it contains
the following enhancements over 1.3.1 :

- new functions for drawing curves and curved arrows
- new bond types
- semiautomatic drawing of 3- to 12-membered planar rings
- semiautomatic drawing of brackets
- 'wedge'-shaped bonds now adapt to the width of adjacent bonds
- improved export modes, including scaling and improved Latex (PicTex)
output
- french, czech, polish, russian and german translations of the user
interface
plus the usual assortment of small changes and bug fixes.

The current development snapshots (which will eventually lead to 1.5)
already provide support for reading MDL molfiles and exporting to SVG,
the W3C standard for scalable vector graphics on webpages.

Martin