On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Michael Day wrote:
How does one change the position of atom labels? For small coordination complexes the default atom labels land on the atom and it would be nice to move them as a whole or individually so they are alongside the atom ball or anisotropic ellipsoid.
Cheers, Mike
In the next daily build, we will have interactive label moving, where you can pick a label and drag it around, and if you hold down the shift key, it will move in Z. It will default to the Control-button-3 mouse mode, but can be reassigned using the mouse mode preferences. You will also be able to change the label offsets using the command line, the "labeloffset x y z atom-spec" and "rlabeloffset x y z atom-spec" commands to set the offsets and "~labeloffset" and "~rlabeloffset" to reset them to the default behavior of adjusting the offset with the representation. For users with existing saved preferences, you might need to turn label dragging on by resetting the mouse mode preferences or by explicitly assigning it to Control-button-3. There's no icon for it yet in the mouse modes interface, but it will be the rightmost column for now. Since the label moving code is new, please send me feedback about how well it works for you. - Greg