Re: [Jmol-users] H-bond capability in Jmo 10 is cool!

[PHILLIP W B. <pw...@fa...>]

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From: Miguel Howard <mt...@mt...>
Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 1:54 pm
Subject: Re: [Jmol-users] H-bond capability in Jmo 10 is cool!
> > Is there any way to vary the appearance of the dashed H-bonds, 
> e.g., to
> > make them solid lines or dotted lines?
> 
> Hmmm ... I am reluctant to go there ... but you might be able to 
> convinceme ... but only if you *really* want to use them as hbonds.
> 
> If what you *really* want to use them for is to construct unit 
> cells, then
> we should talk about that.

Hurray, an end to kludges and silly Chime tricks! 

This is precisely the right track to take...to accomodate the legitimate needs of the chemical community and to avoid the work-arounds for missing features. Unfortunately, these features were missing (or wrong) in Chime for so long, and MDL was so reticent to fix or add, that we grew accustomed to them.
 
> I need to build in better support for unit cell rendering. So I 
> think that
> we have more flexibility in the rendering and representation.

Agreed!

--Phillip Barak
http://www.soils.wisc.edu/virtual_museum/