[chimerax-users] cartoon style atom-spec

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Daniel,
Not dumb, it's easy to get these things messed up!  

Yes, "protein" is an atomspec, as is "#6/H".  The protein part isn't needed for cartoon style except to limit a broader spec that might also include nucleic acid chains (assuming you don't want it to also apply to those).  In general, however, you can combine atomspecs with operator symbols: & for logical AND,  | (vertical bar) for logical OR, e.g.

car style #6 & protein modeh default arrows f xsect oval width 1 thick 1

Combinations discussed here:
<http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/atomspec.html#combinations>

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 Oct 19, 2020, at 7:44 PM, Daniel Asarnow <asarnow at msg.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Ah, I'm dumb, "protein" is taking the atom-spec slot.
> 
> Best,
> -da
> 
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 7:35 PM Daniel Asarnow <asarnow at msg.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
> When I use cartoon style with an atom spec, ChimeraX reports "expected a keyword" error.
> 
> This is the "licorice" example from the documentation, which only works without an atom spec.
> car style protein modeh default arrows f xsect oval width 1 thick 1
> car style #6/H protein modeh default arrows f xsect oval width 1 thick 1
> 
> Is my syntax wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> -da