[Jalview-discuss] need more space between right-justified names and the sequences

[Jim Procter]

Hi again, Dave.

David Garboczi wrote:
> If I right-justify the sequence names, they are too close to the 
> sequence.  When I try to move the sequences to the right, the names 
> move too.
>
> If the sequence names are not right-justified, then I can move the 
> sequences to the right to make more space between the name and the 
> sequence.
The sequence label area width can be adjusted - and of course, when the 
sequences are right justified, they are placed relative to the right 
hand border of the label area, so increasing the width of the sequence 
label area moves the labels to the right. It sounds like you want to add 
a right-hand margin that can be adjusted independently of the width of 
the label area.

The quickest way to deal with this is to use illustrator (or something 
else!) to move the labels to the left.

We could add a label area margin into Jalview, but there are more 
pressing layout issues to be fixed first. The ones that come to mind are 
automatically adjusting the width of the label area, or allowing it to 
be scrolled to the left or right independently of the alignment.

thanks for posting these comments and feature requests..
Jim

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