Just want to point out something I noticed when writing the scientific
notation compiler modification:

Generally you don't need [] around residue names --

select ALA
select LEU

but if that residue starts with a number:

5EE
2E1

then brackets have been (and continue to be) required.

Am I right that with Jmol you could not (ever?) say

select 5EE

but you could certainly say

select [5EE]

With scientific notation introduced, I looked through the ENTIRE heterogen
dictionary for complications and only find one: 2E1. This is compiled as
"100.0" and at first I thought that would be a problem. But then I
realized that "5EE" doesn't work by itself either, because it is taken as
the integer 5 followed by "EE".

I believe the advantage to being able to use integers and scientific
notation outweighs the inconvenience of needing to use brackets, and I'm
interested in others' opinions on this.

If you have a site that allows for selecting ANY HETATM residue, I
recommend ensuring that your code uses those brackets. I just changed the
pop up menu so that it does, as without it 2cct throws an error when the
user tries to select the 2E1 residue using the menu.

Please read what I have added to

http://www.stolaf.edu/academics/chemapps/jmol/docs/?ver=11.0#atomexpressions

and comment.

Bob



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