Label font id
The label_font_id setting sets the typeface (font family) for atom labels.
Syntax
[edit]# use "Serif Bold" font family
set label_font_id, 10
Available Font Families
[edit]Font IDs 0-4 were fixed size GLUT fonts, their support was dropped in PyMOL 1.6.
| Name | label_font_id |
|---|---|
| Sans | 5 |
| Sans Oblique | 6 |
| Sans Bold | 7 |
| Sans Bold Oblique | 8 |
| Serif | 9 |
| Serif Oblique | 17 |
| Serif Bold | 10 |
| Serif Bold Oblique | 18 |
| Mono | 11 |
| Mono Oblique | 12 |
| Mono Bold | 13 |
| Mono Bold Oblique | 14 |
| Gentium Roman | 15 |
| Gentium Italic | 16 |
Special Characters
[edit]Several Unicode characters are supported. They can be entered with unicode literals as 4-digit hexadecimal escape sequences.
Example characters (find the code for your character at Unicode Charts):
| Code | Character | Name |
|---|---|---|
u"\u03b1" |
α | Alpha |
u"\u03b2" |
β | Beta |
u"\u00c5" |
Å | Ångström |
u"\u00b1" |
± | plus/minus |
u"\u00b2" |
² | superscript 2 |
Example 1
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# if Python is configured with utf-8 default encoding (all incentive builds)
label 5/CA, u"\u03b1-Helix"
label 10/CA, u"\u03b2-Sheet"
# if Python is configured differently, explicit utf-8 encoding is necessary
label 5/CA, u"\u03b1-Helix".encode("utf-8")
label 10/CA, u"\u03b2-Sheet".encode("utf-8")
# italic
set label_font_id, 16
# make bigger
set label_size, 50
# cast shadows in ray tracing
set label_shadow_mode, 3
Example 2
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# label residue 30 with "4.1 Ang^2 +/- 0.65 Ang^2
label i. 30, "4.1" + u"\u00c5\u00b2 \u00b1 0.65 \u00c5\u00b2 "