<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jun 24, 2010, at 8:32 AM, Peng Ni wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi,<br><br>I am trying to use the define attribute function. However, the attribute assignment sheet I generated cannot be read. It reports: "Line 1 of file is either not 'name: value' or is missing initial tab". I cannot spot anything wrong in my txt file, which is also attached in the e-mail. I'd greatly appreciate it if you could help me fix this problem.</div></blockquote><br></div><div>Hi Peng,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I don't know how you are creating this file, but if you are using an editor you need to make sure that you save the file in <i>plain text</i> format. The file you sent has two non-ASCII characters right at the beginning, which a lot of editors will hide from you and which screws up Chimera's attempt to read the file. I have attached a version of your file which is identical to the original except with the two non-ASCII characters removed. Chimera reads the attached file fine.</div><div><br></div><div>--Eric</div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Eric Pettersen</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>UCSF Computer Graphics Lab</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu</a></font></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span> </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>