• New on CTAN: orbitals

    From CTAN Announcements@manfred@ctan.org to ctan-ann on Wed May 27 13:33:55 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.text.tex

    Faris Hameed submitted the

    orbitals

    package.

    Version: 1.0
    License: lppl1.3c

    Summary description: Atomic subshell / orbital-box diagrams for LaTeX, with automatic electron filling following Hund's rule and the Pauli principle

    Announcement text: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    `orbitals` draws the familiar "box-and-arrow" notation for atomic subshells
    (s, p, d, f). You give only the principal quantum number, the subshell letter and the number of electrons; the package fills the boxes automatically (one spin-up arrow per box first, then pairing), reproducing the high-spin
    free-atom ground state.

    It can draw:

    * a single subshell (`\suborbital`),
    * a row of subshells (`\electronconfig`),
    * a valence configuration with a noble-gas core (`\atomconfig`),
    * an empty transition-series template (`\transitionseries`).

    Every diagram can be scaled and placed inline in running text. Colours, box size, spacing and arrow shape are configurable. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    This package is located at
    https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/orbitals

    More information is at
    https://ctan.org/pkg/orbitals


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    Thanks for the upload.

    For the CTAN Team
    Manfred Lotz


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