Freida, doesn't that behaviour track back to RasMol/Chime? As far as I recall, if you use width for ribbons or cartoons, the whole chain gets that width; if you use "on", a selective width is applied.
I guess you have already tried: select helix; cartoon 0.8; select sheet; cartoon 0.8; select not helix and not sheet; cartoon on ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users

