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

Wolfgang Zillig wolfgang.zillig at web.de
Mon Mar 10 20:55:33 CET 2008


Stacho Mudrak schrieb:
> 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...
>
>   
ok, I had a look there and it is clear that I will need some time to 
learn the tex basics (I was mainly using CONTEXT but there only the 
upper level code). We first need some further discussion in our group 
what the layout will be, it seems that it will not fit on the page as 
planned anyhow. An also the cave will not fit nicely into the raster.
>> - 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
>
>   
Ah, the LRUD is lying over the centreline shots. symbol hide area 
dimensions did the trick. Generally it would be nice if the dimensions 
would be plotted below the centreline shots. Is there a way to put them 
into a own layer, than you can hide them even in acrobat.
> 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.
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see above, getting a nice layout is not so easy and I thought the 
standard layout is more easily adaptable.

Regards
Wolfgang



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