[Therion] Anyone made any Atlas page-setup Layouts?

[Martin Budaj]

>> I have not been specifying the size <width> and <height> because the
>> Therion book says it is calculated automatically if not given, and also if
>> the nav pane is on, there is not enough information to allow the user to
>> calculate the height manually.  Ie the height of the nav pane is not
>> available to the user.
>>
>> Assistance anyone?
>
> No idea right now about the size of navigation pane - but we will try to add
> it into thbook, how it is created.

It is already described in the chapter Page layout in atlas mode:

\navbox -- The box containing the navigator, with dimensions
size_width * (2*nav_size_x+1) / nav_factor or
size_height * (2*nav_size_y+1) / nav_factor, respectively

i.e. you simply need to count the number of pages in navigaton pane,
and divide their total height (you know the height of the original
page) by the navigator_scale_factor (defined in layout as nav-factor).

>> Took me some time to get my pages to be labelled from A1.  I have figured
>> it out in part, and if I am correct suggest a change to the Therion book
>> definition, (at least for atlas) as follows;
>
> Thanks, we will upgrade it.

I think the current definition is correct. The important point is that
numbering starts on the page whose lower-left corner lies on the
origin (as specified in layout). It does not start on the first page
available in order to get consistent results when the cave expands
over time.

If it behaves differently on your data, send us some minimal sample to
help us finding potential bug.

>> It would be nice for the nav pane to include these as labels along the
>> edge, or at least have the page numbers inserted within the squares,
>> otherwise the nav pane is not as useful as it could be once it is printed on
>> paper… and you are wandering through the cave shuffling pages…
>
> OK, an item in the TODO list. I have not been working on it, so I can not
> say how complicated it is to implement. We will investigate, when I will
> return from holidays.

Currently you can get a good overview by exporting map (using the same
layout settings as the atlas) and turning page-grid on.

Martin