at 2.37p EDT on 2004 January 27 Tuesday PHILLIP W BARAK said: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Miguel Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 1:54 pm > Subject: Re: [Jmol-users] H-bond capability in Jmo 10 is cool! > > > Is there any way to vary the appearance of the dashed H-bonds, > > > e.g., to make them solid lines or dotted lines? > > > > Hmmm ... I am reluctant to go there ... but you might be able to > > convinceme ... but only if you *really* want to use them as hbonds. > > > > If what you *really* want to use them for is to construct unit cells, > > then we should talk about that. > I agree that hydrogen bonds, since they are not covalent, should not appear as such. and yet...
using solid cylinders for hydrogen bonds is pedagogically useful, mostly for emphasis - often, a dotted line is just too easy to overlook, espeically in a complex macromolecule. for example, if I want to emphasize the hydrogen bonding pattern in an alpha helix, I might show the helix in backbone and the hydrogen bonds as solid cylinders colored green. so my opinion, for those who care, is that there should be an option for rendering hydrogen bonds as solid cylinders, but the default should be dotted lines. > Hurray, an end to kludges and silly Chime tricks! > guess I'll throw away my hip waders now. good thing, too - they reek of fake monitor lines, pseudo-NMR files, and other icky things. :-) > This is precisely the right track to take...to accomodate the > legitimate needs of the chemical community and to avoid the > work-arounds for missing features. > don't forget us biologists, Phil. we have needs of our own ;-) :tim -- timothy driscoll molvisions - molecular graphics & visualization <http://www.molvisions.com/> usa:north carolina:wake forest ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
