{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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What are the strengths and weaknesses of KOMA-Script and memoir?
To make a professional book layout, many people suggest to use either KOMA-Script or memoir. Let me know the strengths and weaknesses of each please.
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How to remove the self-reference of the ToC from the ToC?
I'm having a very weird problem. The following example should illustrate it quite right.
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{memoir}
\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\tableofcontents
\clearpage
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Turn on subsection numbering in memoir
It seems that the memoir class automatically avoids numbering subsection headings. Chapter and section titles are numbered, but subsection headings contain only the subsection name, and are not ...
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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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About memoir and titlesec incompatibility
In page 2 of the titlesec documentation, Javier Bezos writes
titlesec works with the standard classes and with many others,
including the AMS ones, and it runs smoothly with hyperref.
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Theorem decorations that stay with theorem environment
I am typesetting a document using the memoir documentclass. Currently, my theorems have the following definition (using macros provided by the ntheorem package):
% THEOREMS
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\pagestyle{ruled} adds superfluous text in glossary
I'm writing my thesis using the memoir package, using \pagestyle{ruled}, and have created glossaries for a glossary and an acronym list. The resulting pdf, contains the superfluous text "Glossary" and ...
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How to remove double “Contents” heading generated by memoir? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to remove the self-reference of the ToC from the ToC?
I am using memoir with the article setting. For some reason my table of contents has a double "Contents" ...
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Hiding the “Table of Contents” page from Table of Contents
I'm using the memoir class, and it adds the Table of Contents page to the TOC. It is... well... pretty redundant...
Any quick way to eliminate this?
\documentclass{memoir}
\begin{document}
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Nicely force 66 characters per line
I would like to have "something" (a package, a trick, a macro, ...?) that makes it possible for me to nicely play with the margins (or the layout) in order to set the average or typical number of ...
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Marginpar appearing on the wrong side (using memoir)
The subject line pretty much says it all: some marginal notes (beginning of the second page) do not appear on the correct side. (The question is: how can I fix this automatically?) Below is a MWE that ...
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How to remove “Contents” line from table of contents [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Hiding the “Table of Contents” page from Table of Contents
How to remove the self-reference of the ToC from the ToC?
I have a table of contents in my ...
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Bringhurst chapter style in memoir
I'm trying to imitate Robert Bringhurst's chapter style in memoir. The class includes one such chapter style, but does not typeset the chapter number on the right side margin, as in Bringhurst's book. ...
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Painless Memoir Class Book Template
I would like to find a memoir class book template that has the basic features of a book already configured (with dummy type, dummy figures, etc.) that compiles properly, so I can just start writing ...
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Equation numbers in outer margins on a two-sided document
I'm looking for a two-sided extension to the solution for this question:
Put equation numbers in the sidemargin with Tufte-Latex class
This post seems relevant:
Equation tag in twoside-mode outer
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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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subfigures with memoir
I switched to memoir and stopped including subfig and now all my subfigures interpret the caption as actual text, i.e., "[caption...]" shows up in the document with the square brackets. How do I have ...
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Booklets in memoir class
I was just reading this question about using pdfpages to create twoup effects in memoir. This worked great for me, but I am wondering how I can get the page order to set up a booklet, so that it can ...
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Is there a poisonous interaction between memoir, hyperref, and hyperxmp?
In another, now rather confused, question, I'm struggling to get copyright information into a PDF produced by memoir.
The investigations so far have led to this problematical MWE:
% !TEX TS-program ...
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Yet another “perhaps a missing \item” error
In the following, I get a perhaps a missing \item error each time a chapter is processed. This occurred only after the second compilation, once the table of contents information is built. Below I ...
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pagenote: Adding a cross-referencing mechanism
This question originates from a bug report at SourceForge.net: biblatex from April 2010. A user pointed out that a certain biblatex style (verbose-inote) produced wrong references when used together ...
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How to \ref to subcaption numbers (a, b) when using memoirs subcaptions?
How can I get references to subcaption numbers when using memoir? In this example:
\documentclass{memoir}
\newsubfloat{figure}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Lorem}
\section{ipsum}
\begin{figure}[b]
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Page number before Chapter title in the Table of Contents with memoir
I've seen in some novel that, in the table of contents, the page number is before the chapter title, for example:
3 Down the Rabbit Hole
7 The Pool of Tears
15 The Caucus Race and a Long Tale
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Output routine footbib error
This is my preamble
\documentclass[a4paper,twoside,12pt,openright,final,oldfontcommands]{memoir}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{import}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{algorithm}
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Hyperref breaks my all-caps ToC entries
I started out on this earlier question. I now have a simple and elegant etoolbox solution to making all-caps chapter entries, but leaving appendix entries untouched. Simple, elegant, and incompatible ...
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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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Problem with vertical space in Memoir title
I've been struggling with titlingpage and Memoir a few hours, trying to make the document title have equal linespacing between its lines when using \\.
The code is:
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Memoir class top margin varies throughout the document. It needs to be 1" exactly throughout [closed]
This is the pagestyle stuff shown for ToC only, others are similar:
\makepagestyle{toc}
\makeevenfoot{toc}{}{\thepage}{}
\makeoddfoot{toc}{}{\thepage}{}
\DoubleSpacing
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Examples of “styles” for section headings with memoir
The memoir class is a popular choice for writing nice looking documents. Memoir gives you a lot of control over how section headings and so on look. Memoir doesn't, however have the nice shortcuts ...
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Displaying the range of sections on the page in the header
I would like to have on each page the range of sections covered by it displayed, opposite of the page number and accompanied by the name of the first new section (if there is a new one) starting on ...
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Footnote numbers in index (e.g., 23n3)
I'm currently weighing indexing options for a book-length project. One of the more surprising hurdles is that there doesn't seem to be a way to create an index (in my case, several indices) that ...
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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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How to place an image over a _full_ (including bleed) page in memoir?
I need to include a jpg into my document created with memoir as a full separate page. The jpg is colored and has 3 mm bleed out into the stock paper. A bit naively I thought I could just use negative ...
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Place two A5 pages on A4 using memoir
I was trying ConTeXt out and found out about imposition. I'm specifically interested in the 2UP schema, so I can just print on a regular A4 and trim.
I have a book typeset using LaTeX and memoir. ...
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Is memoir's page layout incompatible with TikZ?
Can someone explain what's going on here?:
\documentclass[showtrims,svgnames]{memoir}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\settrimmedsize{210mm}{148mm}{*}
\setstocksize{236mm}{164mm}
\settrims{5mm}{5mm}
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How to put section number into the right side of section title in LaTeX?
I am a novice for LaTeX, so need you guy's help.
I am wondering how to change section style in order to put the section number into the right side of section title in LaTeX, especially memoir class. ...
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Memoir Class, \sidebar formatting
In the memoir class, is there a way to get the \sidebar notes to be in paragraph style? I am looking for a similar effect that fnpara provides to footnotes.
I have included an image of what I would ...
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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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When using a book class (memoir), text shifts from left to right on each page
I'm very new to latex, and I've noticed that using a book class causes the text on one page to be on the right and then left on the next and so on. I'd like for it to all to be on the left or ...
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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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Customizing Page Size in Memoir
How do I customize the size of the output pages in the memoir class?
For example, how could I change the page size to 6x9 (while preserving the margin proportions and headers/footers I use) in the ...
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How do I get multiple ToC entries in the same line?
I need that, in the ToC, all the \paragraph references appear in the same line, like.
1 First Chapter................................................1
1.1 First ...
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How do I force \section's to start on a new page if they don't fit on current page?
So I am writing a programming book, and I use \section for each topic. For example, I'd write,
\section{Another way to double-space a file}
\begin{lstlisting}
awk 'BEGIN { ORS="\n\n" }; 1'
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Pocket book size for novel (10.8 x 17.5 cm)
Since a time I only use LaTeX for my writing requirements, for maths, histories, scripts, but this time I want to send a novel to a service like bubok or lulu or whatever that prints books to have it ...
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List of appendices with tocloft and memoir
I found a very nice example showing how to create a list of appendices here: How to get a list of appendices? but it doesn't seem to work with the memoir document class. I get the error message ...
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How to reference subfigure in caption
I used to have code like this: \caption{In \subref{fig:foo:a} you can see...}. Now I switched to using memoirs subtop/subbottom command instead of \subfigure. How can I refer to that subfigure?
As a ...
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Remove dots for chapters in ToC with memoir
I have seen similar posts but none seem to work. I simply need to remove the dots in the ToC between the chapter titles and the page numbers. I think the page numbers should line up (as if there were ...
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Using small caps roman for chapter number with memoir class
I want to use small caps roman numbers for chapter numbering using memoir. So far I have tried the following:
\documentclass[oneside]{memoir}
\usepackage[osf]{mathpazo}
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How to make a new command similar to \author
I'm preparing a new template for our students' projects based on memoir. All this projects are supervised (directed) by one or more professors so I would like to declare a command like \author but ...
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Measure the length of the lowercase alphabet
In the memoir manual speaks about
measuring the length of the lowercase alphabet
in order to decide the numbers of characters per line. Can this be done with LaTeX?
