Magnetic Labels
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Dialog Box - called from: Space-Group Symmetry Dialog

The only characters which will be shown are the symbols + and -. The choice between showing these symbols and atomic vectors is made in the Space-Group Symmetry dialog, Shubnikov tab.

If the Background is opaque, each symbol will lie on a small block of the designated color; this usually makes the labels easier to read. Some other programs may not be able to reproduce these opaque blocks in Metafiles or PICT file output.
Sequence. The labels may be plotted immediately after each atom, or all at once after all atoms have been plotted. The first usually looks better, but some labels will usually be partly or completely obscured.
Use PostScript font. This allows you to enter a character string for PostScript fonts supported by a PostScript printer if such fonts do not appear in the standard system font dialog called up by the Font button. This character string usually specifies the weight (normal, bold) and slant (italic, oblique) of the font, but not the size, which is specified in the Font dialog. Certain PostScript typefaces are standard, and should be present on most PostScript printers.

The label positions are correct for stereopairs, and labels for central atoms of polyhedra will appear suspended in the interior of the polyhedra.

Use the color options in this dialog, not the color options in the Font dialog to set the color of the letters. Letters are always solid black in black-and-white display or output. See Input Colors/Patterns/Pens for general aspects of color input.

Labels are not supported for Pen Plot output.