Hi all,

I am running Coot 0.5.2 on an intel Mac 10.5.6. I am trying to visualize the symmetry related molecules for a small inorganic molecule in spacegroup P 21/C. If I load the file into swiss PDB viewer or Mercury, the symmetry operators show that I have 4 molecules in my unit cell and a pretty orderly looking packing scheme. Coot, however, does not seem to like the P 21/C spacegroup. I changed the CRYST1 line to read

CRYST1   25.000    6.082   11.308  90.00 100.04  90.00 P 1 21/c 1

If I go to Draw->cell and symmetry-> master switch: show symmetry related atoms-> yes

I get a very cramped unit cell with many more than just 4 molecules within. I tried to ask coot what it thinks my spacegroup and symmetry operators were to reconcile this result with those of mercury and swiss viewer.


It recognizes the spacegroup as P 1 21/c 1.

coot> (show-spacegroup 0)
"P 1 21/c 1"

If I then ask coot to show-symmetry I get the following

coot> (show-symmetry 0)

Backtrace:
In current input:
  8: 0* (show-symmetry 0)

<unnamed port>:8:1: In expression (show-symmetry 0):
<unnamed port>:8:1: Unbound variable: show-symmetry
ABORT: (unbound-variable)

Am I doing something dumb here? Thank you in advance.

-Jennifer

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