[Therion] help needed with "layout" for an atlas

[Stacho Mudrak]

Quoting Wolfgang Zillig <wolfgang.zillig at 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.