OK, see http://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/docs/#comment
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Robert Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wayne,
>
> Ah, right, good point. I should put something in the documentation about
> those. Please don't mess with the stuff after the # sign that Jmol puts in
> the state definitions. These are special flags that Jmol needs to correctly
> reproduce the state. You are right that the first atom bitset overrides the
> current selection (or any SELECT given in that command). The second
> overrides the IGNORE set, and the MODEL set overrides the MODEL keyword.
>
> This sort of flagging is only done in the scripts produced by Jmol using
> commands such as
>
> show state
> write state
> getProperty stateInfo
>
> They aren't documented because they are "for internal use only".
>
> Bob
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Wayne Decatur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I was trying to learn about isosurfaces and ran into something baffling
>> concerning the pound sign in Jmol since I always thought everything after it
>> was not used.
>>
>> If I access the Jmol console for any jmol window and enter the following
>> line of commands:
>>
>> isosurface resolution 0 molecular translucent;# ({1:1000}) ({null})#
>> MODEL({0});
>>
>> then jmol uses the stuff after the pound sign 1 through 1000 to make a
>> surface, with what appears is atoms 1 through 1000.
>>
>> However, the page in jmol interactive script documentation about the
>> comment indicator the pound sign (at
>> http://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/docs/?search=%23&ver=11.8&#comment)
>> clearly states Jmol should ignore everything after the pound sign. Here is
>> the pertinent text: "*Anything following '#' up until the end of a
>> statement is ignored by Jmol with the following two exceptions. (A statement
>> is terminated by a semicolon ";" or a newline.) *"
>> The exceptions are #js or #jc which aren't used in the isosurface command
>> that I was looking at.*
>> *
>> And it is not simply skipping the information in between the two pound
>> signs because with the ethene example (at http://tinyurl.com/5hgluk)
>> entering the line"isosurface resolution 0 molecular translucent; MODEL({0});
>> " gives a different result for surface than with original command and also
>> throws an error in the yellow box below.
>>
>>
>> I also see nothing in the isosurfae documentation about pound signs. Is
>> the script documentation for the pound sign and isosurfaces lacking this
>> information that explainins what this command is doing or am I missing
>> something simple?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Wayne*
>>
>> *
>>
>>
>>
>>
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