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- tal structure must also be specified
- in terms of the offset from the origin. One can specify different offsets, or
- boundary locations, for each atom (set of symmetry equivalent atoms) in case
- the slice is not considered to be strictly planar - see section V-2. If you
- choose to use individual offsets for each atom, you will be prompted for the
- offsets during atom input - the offset entered in this section will be used
- only for display of boundary edges of the slice.
-
- Atoms lying exactly on the "upper" boundary - (the face to which the slice is
- defined to be parallel) are excluded from the slice, whereas atoms lying
- exactly on the "lower" boundary (the face with indices negative to the "upper"
- face) are included.
-
- [B.3.3.4] NO BOUNDARIES (MOLECULE).
-
- No boundaries whatever are used if this option is chosen, nor are any
- translations applied. That is, the atoms in the molecule are just the input
- atoms and all of those generated by the point-group symmetry specified in
- [B.3.2] (or the input atoms, if there is no symmetry).
-
- [B.3.3.5] TRANSLATION LIMITS (POLYMER).
-
- In this option, the contents of the central unit cell plus others within
- specified limits are accepted. The central or zero unit cell contains atoms
- with fractional coordinates zero (inclusive) to one (exclusive). The lower
- limit to unit-cell translations is normally zero or negative and the upper
- limit is normally zero or positive. Disabling the translation entirely for an
- axis is equivalent to setting the limits at zero. The translations belong to
- the Bravais lattice, not the primitive lattice.
-
- As an example of application to a crystal, putting the lower limit at -2 and
- the upper limit at +1 for all axe