Re: [Bkchem-user] Hydrogen labels and \n for new lines

[Robert Funnell]

Beda -

On Mon, 18 May 2009, Beda Kosata wrote:

> Robert Funnell wrote:
> > I just discovered BKchem yesterday and I like it. I had some
> > difficulty getting started with the documentation that I found, so I
> > created a little Web page to remind me of what I've learned. FWIW,
> > it's at http://audilab.bmed.mcgill.ca/~funnell/swil_bkchem.html.
> > I hope that it's accurate as far as it goes.
>
> Thanks. The documentation is very old and I did not update it for ages.

I must confess that it was only after figuring things out and writing 
my Web page that I discovered that a user's manual is included in the 
distribution. Unless I missed something, perhaps a line (e.g., 'A 
user's manual included in the doc/ directory of the installed files') 
could be added to the Web site (e.g., on the Install page)?

> Any new piece of information available to the users is welcome.

I've taken the liberty of adding a link to the wiki howtos page, as 
well as a mention of the user's manual.

> > As noted on that page, I ran across a couple of problems.
> >
> > One is that I couldn't get BKchem to not display the labels of
> > hydrogen atoms once I'd specified them as hydrogen. Is that what the
> > Options > Standard > Atom setting is supposed to do?
>
> This dialog is for global settings - it influences only new drawings
> (unless you select to apply it to existing items in the lower part of
> the dialog).
> To make changes in existing items, you can either use the context menu
> (right-click) and select "Hydrogens->Off" or "Properties->Hydrogens->Off".

I did select to apply it to the whole drawing and to existing values, 
and I've also right-clicked and selected Hydrogens->Off, but nothing 
seems to change. The H's are still displayed. Perhaps I'm missing the 
point. What I expected was that I could explicitly label atoms as H,
and then have those H's be either visible or not visible. Is that the 
way it's supposed to work?

- Robert