[Chimera-users] 2dlab problem

[jrb53]

Thanks Elaine. You were right about the problem mostly. It was a problem with the style of quotes, but I was using the ones from the keyboard. The Mac text editor automatically switched them to the special-characters one much like you were afraid of with the mail app. Using Brackets as a text editor instead has solved my problem. 

Thanks
John


> On Dec 23, 2015, at 9:48 AM, Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
> My guess is that you are using special-character start/end quotation marks, not just the simple quotation marks directly from the keyboard.  You can see the difference in that the special characters curl in opposite directions whereas the simple ones directly from the keyboard are more straight, and the start and end marks look the same as each other.
> 
> For example, if I just paste your example command into the command line, I get the same error as you reported.  Then if I edit the command line to replace the special-character quotation marks with ones directly from the keyboard (single or double, either will work), the command works to create the label.
> 
> I won’t enter the command with the simple quotation marks here because I think my Mail app will change them into the fancy special-character ones!
> 
> I hope this helps,
> Elaine
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> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. 
> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> University of California, San Francisco
> 
>> On Dec 22, 2015, at 4:34 PM, jrb53 <jrb53 at uw.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello all,
>> I am making a movie in Chimera and labelling the various proteins as they appear. For some reason I am having trouble with 2dlab
>> If I write
>> 
>> 2dlab create kvlab4 text “Voltage-gated potassium channel” size 48 style bold color blue xpos .04 ypos .9
>> 
>> I get the error
>> Keyword 'potassium' doesn't match any known keywords
>> 
>> Its like it doesn’t get that the quotes are even there and it sees the label as multiple command line arguments. I get the same error with single quotes. If I use one word labels, it works fine.
>> Any idea? Or am I missing something simple?
>> John
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