[Chimera-users] about select and label a residul with another different from the color of the whole model

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Lei Zhang,
You can use the “color” command to color labels separately from the other things.  For example, commands like these to change all residue labels or only a specific residue label:

color cyan,lr
color yellow,lr #0:500

… the “,lr” part means residue label.  You could also use “,l” (these are the letter L, not number 1) for all kinds of labels, atom and/or residue.  There is no space after the comma. You can also color ribbons, surfaces, etc. separately from the atoms.  This is explained in the “color” help page:
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/color.html>

You could also do these things with the menu, Actions… Color… all options… to open a coloring dialog, in which you could change the choice under “Coloring applies to”

For a figure, however, you may want the fancier “2D Labels” (menu: Tools… Depiction… 2D Labels):
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/2dlabels/2dlabels.html>

I hope this helps,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. 
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco


> On Nov 8, 2017, at 7:32 PM, 张雷 <leizhang at hsc.pku.edu.cn> wrote:
> 
> Hi the experts of Chimera,
> Good noon! I had selected a residul and labeled it with the commands 
> 
> sel #0:500
> rlabel #0:500.
> 
> Then, the label can be displayed on the selected residul. How could I change the color of the label and display the label in a different color different from the color of the whole model? Thank a lot!
> Sincerely,
> Lei Zhang
> Peking University, Beijing, China