"set labelsFront on" in 10.3.1 is extremely useful -- with it you can be sure to see all labels regardless of the orientation of the molecule.
However, I think we need another mode for labels. Most often, what I need is that, with everything SPACEFILLED, the label on an alpha-carbon atom be visible regardless of the orientation of the amino acid. In other words, I'd like the label to be in front of the sidechain, even when the sidechain is in front, hiding the alpha carbon. On the other hand, if A DIFFERENT residue is in front of the labeled residue, I want the label to be hidden behind the interceding residue. That is, I don't want to see labels from the backside of the molecule "bleeding through" to the front (as now happens with "set labelsFront on"). So I'd like: set labelsFront group I'm not sure how hard this would be to implement. Another idea that occurred to Frieda when we discussed this is set labelsFront [distance] So labels would be hidden behind atoms only when the interceding atoms are farther than [distance] from the labeled atom. This would be slightly less satisfactory than "set labelsFront group" but would fill the need, if it is easier to implement. Thanks, -Eric /* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Eric Martz, Professor Emeritus, Dept Microbiology U Mass, Amherst -- http://www.umass.edu/molvis/martz Biochem 3D Education Resources http://MolviZ.org See 3D Molecules, Install Nothing! - http://firstglance.jmol.org Protein Explorer - 3D Visualization: http://proteinexplorer.org Workshops: http://workshops.proteinexplorer.org World Index of Molecular Visualization Resources: http://molvisindex.org ConSurf - Find Conserved Patches in Proteins: http://consurf.tau.ac.il Atlas of Macromolecules: http://atlas.proteinexplorer.org PDB Lite Macromolecule Finder: http://pdblite.org Molecular Visualization EMail List (molvis-list): http://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/molvis-list - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - */ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
