{memoir} is a document class designed especially for book-length documents. It incorporates the functions of many independent packages into one class.

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How to remove the indentation in list of listing

The list (from \lstlistoflistings) is indented compared to list of tables (\listoftables). How can I remove the extra indentations? \documentclass{memoir} \usepackage{listings} \begin{document} ...
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TOC Page Numbers, A-pagenum left aligned, S-pagenum centered

I have customized some page numberings. My adviser wanted appendix pages labeled as A-pagenum. So that was accomplished with \renewcommand{\thepage}{A-\arabic{page}} while my supporting info labeled ...
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How to remove entry “Listings” from table of content (toc)

How can I use \lstlistoflistings to create a list of listings, but not have this list as an entry in the table of content? Normally, a star helps to hide things like that and I use memoir as document ...
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Quick introduction to memoir class [closed]

I'm planning to use the memoir class for writing a small technical book on computer programming. I just downloaded the memoir manual. Unfortunately it is very big and will take a long time to get ...
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Figure style with memoir class

I'm trying to modify the defaut figure style with the memoir class. More precisely, I would like to have the Figure X.Y part in bold. To get X.Y in bold isn't a problem, as the ...
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\newenvironment issues with environment comment

I am trying to setup the formatting for a LaTeX document (it's got the class memoir), so that it would be fairly simple to add to it in the future. Two of the features I'd like are: Be able to mark ...
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Chaptername not displayed in the header

I have a question regarding the header and footer. I am using memoir class and want to create a custom header which displays the name of the chapter. Below is the code I have so far, that doesnt show ...
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makeheadrule in the memoir class

I have been trying to get the makeheadrule and makefootrule directives to work in a memoir class document. Here is an MWE \documentclass[10pt]{memoir} \usepackage{lipsum} ...
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How do I get LaTeX to output to the right-hand page only?

I am doing a book of poetry for a friend, using Memoir and the poetry package. She would like the poems to print only on the right-hand pages. I can get poems to begin only on right-hand pages, but ...
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Creating a Word Index for a Book

I'm writing a book using memoir with a lot of technical words. I want to have an index at the end, which, for each word or term I choose, will refer the reader to the relevant pages. Is there any ...
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memoir: sidecaption: ragged against the text block not working

I want to use the sidecaption environment in a figure with memoir and have the caption text be ragged against the text block. But when the figure is moved to the next page, the caption is on the ...
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memoir class with subcaption and hyperref packages

This is similar to this question about using subfigures in memoir class and this one about using subfigure memoir and hyperref together Is it possible to use memoir class with sucaption package? I ...
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Change header only in one page

I'm starting the report of my capstone project. I'm using the memoir package, taking this template as a reference Right now, I'm working in the formatting required by my college. My problem is that ...
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Space from line

How can i obtain the correct spacing of the two writings from the line? if you note the upper write is more far from the line... \documentclass[a4paper]{memoir} ...
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Can't get babel and amsthm to play nice once Hebrew is loaded

I am working in LaTeX, and I am trying to get babel and amsthm to play nice together. I produced a minimal example (which gives a different error than the full project, but getting this to work could ...
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Titlingpage use in memoir class

Why the titlingpage command do not function as the titlepage command? is not the same command but for the memoir class? \documentclass[a4paper]{memoir} \usepackage{lipsum} \begin{document} ...
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minitoc per sections with memoir

I want to make a minitoc for each section with the subsections with the memoir class. But it doesn't works, only \minitoc per chapters are working. How can I do that ?
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Minitoc and memoir

I read this question about minitoc but I can't make it work with memoir. Is there an known incompatibility between these two ? Is it somehow possible to make it work ?
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Chapters that openleft unless the chapter is only one page long

I'm using the memoir class, and would like new chapters to begin on the left-hand page, unless the chapters in question are only one page long. Neither openleft nor openany give this behavior. I am ...
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memoir marginfigure: \includegraphics adds extra space on the left [closed]

When using \includegraphics inside a margin figure with memoir, the graphic is always shifted to the right by a few points. This causes overfull hboxes. Why is that so and how can I fix that? Here is ...
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What precautions must I take when using custom index commands with memoir?

I'm trying to write my own indexing front-end commands to do things such as highlighting the primary reference, but something seems to be wrong with the sorting. Here's my MWE: ...
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Chapter comment with regulation

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{memoir} \newenvironment{introduction} {\centering% \begin{minipage}{.8\textwidth}% % \centering% \itshape\footnotesize\hspace{-1em}\ignorespaces% } {% ...
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Setting up paragraphing of subsections using code from memman.pdf results in mysterious compilation error

I was trying to emulate the style of the long table of contents in the memoir manual. Specifically, the effect I want to achieve is to have all subsections names and page numbers in the same ...
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Specific margin size in memoir

I am writing my thesis nowadays, and one of the few things the instructions have specific recommendations about is page size and margins. The page should be A4, and the margins should be: (I revised ...
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underfull vbox (badness 10000) with memoir

Sorry if this question has been asked very often, but I can't easily find an answer to my specific question. I am using XeLaTeX and the memoir class to produce a rather long document (100 pages) with ...
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Removing leader and page number from added line in ToC (memoir class)

My question is very similar to this, but a little more complicated - Yet another leader dot question and related for TOC I am trying to format my ToC using the memoir class. I want my ToC to look ...
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suppress lot/lof entry in memoir

Using the caption package, one can suppress lot/lof entry with an empty optional argument for \caption. But the caption package is incompatible with memoir. How can I suppress lot/lof entries in ...
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TOC and other Margin issues in Memoir Class [closed]

I am facing the same problem. I could add a space between Chapter-Page header and ToC text using the following approach: in pwasu.sty file: \makepagestyle{toc} \setlength{\headsep}{\linespace} ...
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section numbers (\thesection) and names have next page's values

I have customized my headers to display section numbers and section names. However: (a) The section number (\thesection) in my header often shows up with the next page's value. (b) The section name ...
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Memoir class headers listing section/subsection/etc. hierarchy

I'm trying to use the memoir class such that a document with the following structure: \section{A section} \subsection{A subsection} \subsection{Another subsection} \subsubsection{A subsubsection} ...
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Modify \listofschemes output to match memoir class

I am using the memoir class with the chemstyle package. I just observed that the output from my \listofschemes command has a different indentation and format than my \listoffigures output. I tried ...
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Creating a specific chapter style using memoir

I'm completely new to using TeX but have managed over the past couple of days to get a basic setup working for my thesis using memoir. I've been exploring the chapter heading styles at ...
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Command \cs already defined in memoir class but not in amsart?

Consider the following code: \documentclass{memoir} \newcommand{\cs}{\Sigma} \title{Rings and Modules} \author{} \begin{document} \maketitle \end{document} This fails to compile and I get the ...
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make index entries refer to number selected paragraphs

For a given work, I have to number some selected paragraphs, with a continuous numerotation throughout all the book. I can do it using this tip. I need the index entries refer to the paragraph ...
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Memoir manual: “The numbering of parts has no effect on the numbering of \chapters.”

I am writing my PhD using memoir class. I have 5 parts, divided into chapters. But before the first chapter of each part, I have an introduction to what the following chapters are about. Here's an ...
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How to remove labels but preserve hanging indenting in the memoir class

I am writing my humanities PhD in the memoir class. I need to have hanging indents for the bibliography, but no numbers or bullets. I have added \makeatletter \renewcommand\@biblabel[1]{} ...
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LaTeX and Mathematica

Does anyone any have experience with writing large works (fx. a thesis, BA, ...) in Mathematica and then successfully converting it to LaTeX code of reasonably quality or should I just stick to my ...
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Chapter style using chaptername and chapter number inside TikZ

I am trying to define my own chapter style for my thesis. I am using memoir, and want to put the part that says e.g. "Chapter 3" or "Appendix C" inside a single TikZ figure. My code so far is the ...
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How can I customise memoir's index to have more than two columns?

Is it possible to customise memoir's index so that it has more than two columns? My index entries are single Chinese characters, so even \twocolindex results in way too much whitespace.
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“Automatic” section labeling?

I would like to be able to link within a document to another section without having to explicitly put a label after that other section command. hyperref does this with the TOC labels, so I think that ...
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Part style in memoir class

I use the \chapterstyle{thatcher} in memoir class. I would like the part style would be similar to the chapter style - but with title centered in the page. As I'm a newbie in LaTeX world, I wonder ...
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Table of contents: Dots and title

I want to remove the dots of the table of content (toc), so i used: \makeatletter \renewcommand{\@dotsep}{10000} \makeatother but it doesn’t work… How can I remove the title (name) of the toc? ...
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Omitting chapter numbers in section headers using memoir

I'm trying to find a way to remove the chapter number from the section headers when using memoir. Right now I'm using parts, but no chapters and zeroes appear in front of all section numbers. I tried ...
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Indent or not based on section depth

I would like to know how to set it up so that a \subsubsection{} will indent the first paragraph but all other sectioning command of a higher level (\chapter{}, \section{}, and \subsection{}) will NOT ...
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How to test if some command similar to \author is used in .tex file?

I want to modify \maketitle command in a new document class based in memoir. \maketitle command should include a new \director command similar to author. If this command is defined in text file, the ...
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Memoir: Subbottom over several pages?

In the Memoir class, I use the subbottom command to create subfigures, labeled, e.g., 1(a), 1(b), 1(c) etc. And this works very nicely. However, if I include more figures in subbottoms than what can ...
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formatting section numbers with \hangsection in Memoir

I'd previously been renewing my section command in Memoir in order to style the section numbers by prefacing them with a symbol (§) and following them with a period: \renewcommand{\thesection}{§ ...
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Section text (without heading) following section number on same line in Memoir

For my purposes I would like to have (free-standing) section numbers in the margins and no section headings---just the section text---immediately following (i.e., on the same line as) the section ...
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Subsection numbers with memoir + frontmatter

I've just tried to use \frontmatter with memoir class for the first time and everything works fine except for some weird detail. When I add \frontmatter and \mainmatter commands, the numbers of ...
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How to modify \part style in memoir

A beginner question: I would like to print \part with roman numbers as it follows: I. Teil or I. rész Someone could please explain me how to do it?

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