Title/Axes
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Dialog Box - called from: Input1 Menu

The title may have up to 80 characters of identifying information. This may now use non-ANSI character sets, selected with the Font button. The size of the text in the edit box is fixed, and will not reflect the size selected with the Font button.

The axial system determines the type of coordinate axes for crystal faces (if present) as well as atoms. If you are drawing a molecule you will probably want to choose Unit Cartesian axes unless the symmetry is trigonal or hexagonal - see Coordinate Systems.

If you choose a crystal system you must supply the axis lengths and interaxial angles appropriate to the crystal system you selected. Axis lengths should be in Angstroms, and angles in degrees and fractions (not minutes and seconds). If you are entering a new structure, the unique angle for the monoclinic system is always called beta at this point. However, in the Symmetry options the selection of space or point group may change this, and if you return to the Title/Axes dialog the correct angle should be shown. If the angles are still incorrect you can use triclinic axes.

Although standard crystallographic nomenclature gives the same letter (usually a) to symmetry-equivalent axes, after the initial input ATOMS may call all axes, whatever the system, "a, b, and c" and angles "Alpha", "Beta" and "Gamma".

If the Print title on plot box is checked, the title will be shown in the lower left on all display and output (of the structure, not the Powder or Precession patterns). If the Scale box is checked, the lettering on print and file output will be scaled to approximately the same relative size compared to the drawing as it is on the screen.

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.