[Chimera-users] How to change the font for residue label

[Jean Didier Pie Marechal]

Hi,

I would like labels to appear bigger like with a bold font. How is that possible?

Best
JD


Dr. Jean-Didier Maréchal
Lecturer
The Computational Biotechnological Chemistry Team
Unitat de Química Física
Departament de Química
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Edifici C.n.
08193 Cerdanyola (Barcelona)
Tel: +34.935814936
e-mail: JeanDidier.Marechal at uab.es
www: http://asklipio.qf.uab.es

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>   1. Re: Coloring nucleic acid ladder with opacity. Possible bug?
>      (Tom Goddard)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:04:13 -0700
> From: Tom Goddard <goddard at sonic.net>
> To: Rebecca Swett <rswett at chem.wayne.edu>
> Cc: chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu
> Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] Coloring nucleic acid ladder with
> 	opacity. Possible bug?
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> Hi Rebecca,
> 
> I put in a fix so that nucleotide ladder transparency looks right 
> in 
> tonight's daily builds.  The fix applies to all Chimera VRML models 
> when 
> single-layer transparency is used.  If multi-layer transparency is 
> used 
> then the opacity times the red,green,blue values of all transparent 
> layers are added together without regard to which layers are in 
> front of 
> which other layers, and that will still produce overly bright and 
> incorrect transparency.  That is hard to fix.  The single-layer 
> transparency mode is the default in Chimera 1.6 and later.
> 
>     Tom
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] Coloring nucleic acid ladder with 
> opacity. 
> Possible bug?
> From: Tom Goddard
> To: Rebecca Swett
> Date: 10/9/12 6:11 PM
> > Hi Rebecca,
> >
> >   Transparency does not work well with Chimera's nucleotide 
> > representations (slabs, ladder).  Here's a technical explanation 
> that 
> > may help you understand why you see what you see.  The 
> transparent 
> > nucleotide ladder is shown by multiplying the red, green, blue 
> color 
> > components (range 0 to 1) by the opacity (= 1 - transparency) and 
> > those color values are simply added to the image.  Even in 
> > single-layer transparency mode both the back and the front of the 
> > cylinders are being added which makes the colors twice as bright 
> as 
> > they should be and can make it appear entirely white if rgb 
> values all 
> > end up greater than 1.
> >
> >   This is a defective way to show something transparent. 
> Nucleotides 
> > are drawn as "VRML" models and all such Chimera models have this 
> > deficiency.  Normal surfaces and molecules in Chimera do not have 
> this 
> > problem with transparency.  It may be possible to fix the VRML 
> > transparency so it respects the "single-layer transparency" 
> option and 
> > that would make it much better since front and back side colors 
> would 
> > not get added creating an overly bright (sometimes white) 
> appearance.>
> >     Tom
> >
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] Coloring nucleic acid ladder with 
> > opacity. Possible bug?
> > From: Greg Couch
> > To: Rebecca Swett
> > Date: 10/9/12 5:31 PM
> >> It's not a feature. :-)  For me, transparency for ladder rungs 
> kinda 
> >> works -- the rungs are transparent, but not enough.  And I only 
> see 
> >> opaque white when the ladder rungs are facing the key light. You 
> >> could mitigate the opaque white by moving the model or the key 
> >> light.  If you are seeing different results or if you're 
> interested 
> >> in being notified after the bug is fixed, please file a bug report.
> >>
> >> FYI, in the Chimera daily build (available tomorrow), I've 
> eliminated 
> >> the extra cylinder caps that are exposed when you make the 
> ladder 
> >> transparent, so you can get a slightly better picture.
> >>
> >>     HTH,
> >>
> >>     Greg
> >>
> >> On 10/07/2012 07:01 PM, Rebecca Swett wrote:
> >>> Hey all, quick question on coloring here. I'm handling a 
> structure 
> >>> that has nucleic acids and protein. I'd like to represent the 
> >>> nucleic acids with the ladder representation and then have them 
> at a 
> >>> lower opacity to bring focus to the protein structure. When I 
> try 
> >>> coloring the ladder with opacity, the ribbons color just fine, 
> but 
> >>> the rungs go opaque white. Is this a bug, or has anyone gotten 
> this 
> >>> to work? I just updated to 1.6.2. Thanks for any help.
> >>> ~Rebecca
> >>>
> >>> Rebecca Swett
> >>> Wayne State University
> >>> 357 Chemistry
> >>> Detroit, MI 48201
> >>>
> >>> Lab Phone 313-577-0552
> >>> Cell Phone 906-235-0768
> >>
> 
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