You can shift the label position relative to the atom position using the “set label_position” command, or, in edit mode, ctrl-shift-left_click to move the labels in the z-direction. See https://pymolwiki.org/index.php/Label for details
Annemarie Honegger > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 17:57:46 +0800 > From: "sunyeping" <sunyep...@aliyun.com> > To: "pymol-users" <pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: [PyMOL] How to label atom at proper positions? > Message-ID: > <fe95329e-390b-4004-a32f-ac94d4cf6be8.sunyep...@aliyun.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Dear pymol users, > > I select a series of CA atoms in a structure in pymol and show them as sphere > in pymol and want to label them. If using the label menu at the up-right > conner of pymol, the labels shown overlaps with spheres and can not be seen. > So I wish to show the labels at a bit distance from the seleccted atoms. Is > there a method to do that? I will appreciate to any help! > > Best regards > _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pymol/lists/pymol-users/unsubscribe