I try to generate the graphics by commands, avoiding the use of the menu interface, which works fine in most cases. 
If chimera will remember the setting, that is a good solution.

best regards
mathy


On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Elaine Meng <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
To be more explicit, number of decimal places is a setting in the Distances panel (in menu under under Tools... Structure Analysis).

Elaine

On Mar 28, 2013, at 11:13 AM, Eric Pettersen wrote:

> On Mar 28, 2013, at 2:49 AM, matheus froeyen wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> does someone know how I can control the number of decimal places shown
>> in a distance label using the command line?
>
> Hi Mathy,
>       There isn't such a command, but once you set the precision using the dialog then Chimera remembers that setting.  Is there a specific reason you need to use a command for this?  If there was, I could add such a command.
>
> --Eric
>
>