Quoting Wolfgang Zillig <wolfgang.zillig@web.de>:
- how can I align the map area to the left? The standards seems to be top,center
What exactly do you mean by map area? The position of map within atlas page is set using "origin" setup in layout. Is this what you mean?
- how can change the position of the "page indicator" (the 5 by 5 matrix of the surrounding pages), the "scale bar" and also the "page overview"
I am afraid - this is not yet possible. You can adjust only page size using "page-setup" layout option, but to customize it completely - you need to redefine \dopage TeX macro - which is a little bit tricky. If you could draw how do you imagine your atlas page - may be we can help you...
- at the moment I only have centreline data but this is sometimes not nicely displayed, see attachement.
It is because there are LRUD dimensions showed with white color. This default setting should be probably changed - it is realy not very user friendly. You can control it two ways. Either use in your layout symbol-hide area dimensions (LRUD dimensions will not be shown) Or use color map-fg 50 to show LRUD envelope with 50% gray (or use [0 50 50] syntax to define your color in RGB space).
- how to display the centreline in the "page indicator" or if not possible how to disable the "page indicator"?
This is not yet possible - but adding LRUD envelope to page indicator should be possibe - may be also showing centerline. I will add this into TODO list. To disable page indicator, you will need to modify \dopage macro using "code tex-atlas" in your layout. But how - I am not sure - the TeX macros were done by Martin, so he should write more about it. Regards, S.