Re: [ccp4bb]: labels in Molscript and Raster3D

["David R. Cooper" <drc2n@unix.mail.virginia.edu>]

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To address the label clipping problem, I have simply "raised" the labels
with a label offset.
set labeloffset 0 0 8;

I would also be interested using greek letters in Molscript/Raster3d, but
for now I add those labels manually with Gimp or Photoshop (or just
Powerpoint if its for a talk).

David
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On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Q. Steven Xu wrote:

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> Sorry the questions are not related to CCP4.
>
> I am using Molscript v2.1.2 and Raster3D v2.4f to draw some figures for
> publication. Greek characters have to be used to label some secondary
> structural elements. However, the "lablemask" settings can only be applied
> to PostScript output only. If I used Raster3D to render the image, all
> greek characters would change back to Roman ones. So my question is how to
> make greek lables in Molscript or Raster3D that can match to the render
> command.
>
> The second question is that when the output image is rendered by raster3D,
> some labels are occluded by the graphics objects in front of them. It
> appears to me that no opitions in render or Molscript program can fix
> this problem.
>
> Any suggestions are welcome. Thank you in advance.
>
> regards,
> Q. Steven Xu
> Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics
> Boston Univ. School of Medicine
> Tel: (617)638-4083
> Fax: (617)638-4041
> E-mail: qian@med-biophg.bu.edu
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