Switching from memoir to report

Question

I've been using memoir for a while now, and have started facing problems with modified output routine, this has forced me to seriously consider switching (back) to report class. What I'm going to ask might seem like a case of "Do the research for me", so I hope I'm not asking for too much. I would like to know how to produce 'exactly' the same output with report given the following:

The preamble (up until now of course) Preamble.tex:

\documentclass[a4paper,twoside,12pt,openright,final,oldfontcommands]{memoir} 
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{import}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{algorithm}
\usepackage{caption}
\captionsetup{font=small,labelfont=bf}
\usepackage{arabtex}
\usepackage{utf8}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{float}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3} 
\usepackage{fixltx2e}
\usepackage{paralist} 
\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{pdftex,
            linktocpage=true,
            bookmarks=true,
            colorlinks=true,
            citecolor=blue,
            filecolor=black,
            linkcolor=blue,
            urlcolor=black}
\usepackage[all]{hypcap}
\usepackage{calc}
\copypagestyle{ruledsmallhd}{ruled}
\makeevenhead{ruledsmallhd}{\footnotesize\scshape\leftmark}{}{}
\makeoddhead{ruledsmallhd}{}{}{\footnotesize\scshape\rightmark}
\makeheadrule{ruledsmallhd}{0px}{0px}

The main file:

\input{Preamble.tex}
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{ruledsmallhd}
\pagenumbering{roman}
\maketitle
\newpage
\maxtocdepth{subsection}
\tableofcontents
\newpage
\listoffigures
\listoftables
\subimport{./Chapter1/}{Chapter1.tex}
\subimport{./Chapter2/}{Chapter2.tex}
\bibliographystyle{unsrt}
\bibliography{./Bibliography}
\end{document}

I think the obvious issue is producing exactly the same headers/footers with fancyhdr instead of pagestyle, but of course I wouldn't really know what else would change, hence I've posted this question.

Answer 1

I would recommend to use the book class and the following setup for fancyhdr

\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancypagestyle{frontmatter}{%
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}%
  \fancyhf{}%
  \fancyhead[RO,LE]{\footnotesize\scshape\nouppercase{\leftmark}}%
  \fancyfoot[RO,LE]{\thepage}%
}
\fancypagestyle{mainmatter}{%
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}%
  \fancyhf{}%
  \fancyhead[RO]{\footnotesize\scshape\nouppercase{\rightmark}}%
  \fancyhead[LE]{\footnotesize\scshape\nouppercase{\leftmark}}%
  \fancyfoot[RO,LE]{\thepage}%
}

and then

\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\pagestyle{frontmatter}
\maketitle
\newpage
\setcounter{tocdepth}{2}
\tableofcontents
\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\listfigurename}
\listoffigures
\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\listtableename}
\listoftables
\mainmatter
\pagestyle{mainmatter}

...

\end{document}

You might need to change some pagination parameters, use geometry.

Answer 2

My inclination would be not to give up prematurely on the memoir class, especially as it may be possible to figure out which parts are giving you problems because of interference with the output routine.

Quoting from p. xxix of The Memoir Class, the user guide to the memoir document class:

The memoir class includes code either equivalent to, or extensions of, the following packages; that is, the set of commands and environments is at least the same as those in the packages: abstract, appendix, array, booktabs, ccaption, chngcntr, chngpage, dcolumn, delarray, enumerate, epigraph, framed, ifmtarg, ifpdf, index, makeidx, moreverb, needspace, newfile, nextpage, parskip, patchcmd, setspace, shortvrb, showidx, tabularx, titleref, titling, tocbibind, tocloft, verbatim, verse.

Most of these packages do not modify the output routine. If you can figure out which packages are the ones that are giving you trouble, you could issue the following commands -- picking the packages chngpage and nextpage purely for sake of illustration:

\DisemulatePackage{chngpage}
\DisemulatePackage{nextpage}

Quoting some more from the manual:

The [memoir] class also provides functions similar to those provided by the following packages, although the commands are different: crop, fancyhdr, geometry, sidecap, subfigure, titlesec. You can use these packages if you wish, or just use the capabilities of the memoir class.

AFAICT, this is the exhaustive list of all LaTeX packages emulated by or incorporated in memoir.