Atom Label Editor

• How to change an atom label

• Format

• Replace/overwrite

The button located on the Tools Toolbar enables the Edit Atom Label tool allowing you to

• format the atom label and

• replace/overwrite any atom/atom label in a structure with a (formatted)

  • abbreviation group

  • list/not list

  • R group

  • alias or

  • pseudo atom

{warning} Only default and user-defined abbreviated groups can be formatted.

How to change an atom label

1. Select the Atom Label editor tool located on the Tools Toolbar or alternatively select this tool from the contextual menu.

2. Hover the atom label and click to open up its atom label text field.

3. Type the desired atom label text into the text field and/or edit the label.

4. Click elsewhere on the canvas or click the green tick below the textbox to close the text field and set the new label.

Format

When opening an atom label field, a format toolbar will appear above it containing several controls.

Some shortkeys can be used inside the textbox for formatting, too.

The attributes that can be changed are listed in the table below.

Button	allows you to make the selected characters in the atom labels
	bold
	italic
	subscript
	superscript
	symbols
Alias	Alias atom
Pseudo	Pseudo atom

The symbol map is active only when a text box is open for editing. The twelve most recently used characters appear at the top of the window. A character may appear more than once in his section if the versions use different fonts.

To insert a character:

1. Select any character in the table to enter it in the text box.

2. Click 'Insert'.

{info} Please note that the Text attributes like font type an color can be set in the Format dialog box opened from the contextual menu.

Replace/overwrite

MarvinSketch automatically tries to interpret chemically the atom labels including the abbreviation groups (user-defined ones as well) and templates.

If this interpretation fails, a warning is thrown that the label will be considered alias.

Restrictions and tips on changing atom labels are summarized in the table below.