I have just begun to use memoir
and I am already having trouble understanding exactly how to make this work. I will refer to the manual but I would like the experts here to explain to me in simple language exactly how this works. Below is the code of document which I got from Painless Memoir Class Book Template
\documentclass[10pt,twoside,openright]{memoir}
%\usepackage{createspace}
%\usepackage[size=pocket,noicc]{createspace}
\usepackage[paperwidth=4.25in, paperheight=6.875in,bindingoffset=.75in]{geometry}
%\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel}
\usepackage{tgtermes}
%\usepackage{mathpazo}
\usepackage[protrusion=true,expansion=true]{microtype}
%\usepackage{type1cm}
%\usepackage{lettrine}
%\checkandfixthelayout
% See the ``Memoir customise'' template for some common customisations
% Don't forget to read the Memoir manual: memman.pdf
%\title{TITLE OF BOOK}
%\author{NAME OF AUTHOR}
%\date{} % Delete this line to display the current date
%% BEGIN TITLE
\makeatletter
\def\maketitle{%
\null
\thispagestyle{empty}%
\vfill
\begin{center}\leavevmode
\normalfont
{\LARGE\raggedleft \@author\par}%
\hrulefill\par
{\huge\raggedright \@title\par}%
\vskip 1cm
% {\Large \@date\par}%
\end{center}%
\vfill
\null
\cleardoublepage
}
\makeatother
\author{NAME OF AUTHOR}
\author{NAME OF AUTHOR}
\title{TITLE OF BOOK}
\date{}
%%% BEGIN DOCUMENT
\begin{document}
\let\cleardoublepage\clearpage
\maketitle
\frontmatter
\null\vfill
\begin{flushleft}
\textit{NAME OF BOOK}
© COPYRIGHT INFO
ISBN--INFO
ISBN--13:
\bigskip
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED OR COPYRIGHT LICENSE LANGUAGE
\end{flushleft}
\let\cleardoublepage\clearpage
\mainmatter
\sloppy
BOOK TEXT GOES HERE
\end{document}
I do not have trouble understanding things such as adding chapters, subsections etc. But the main problem, I am having is setting the various margins (gutter margin, outside margin) and the exact requirements of createspace. For example, the size of my book is 5in x 8in but I do not understand how to change that in the code above. Furthermore, how can I add the various margins such as the gutter margins and the outside margins? If someone could provide a small example as to how to do this, it would be great.
Thanks a lot for your time!
EDIT:
I have managed to change the paper height and width of the document but now I just need to know how to adjust the margins so it fits with the format of createspace.
geometry
to set the layout withmemoir
(as in your example), sincememoir
has its own set of macros for these kinds of things. You may take a look at this question Pocket book size for novel (10.8 x 17.5 cm) – Jesper Ipsen Mar 1 '13 at 7:45\setlrmarginsandblock
to set the gutter margins and would one go about setting the binding offset in memoir? – Jeel Shah Mar 1 '13 at 10:37stocksize
(size of physical paper; typical a4 or letterpaper), there ispapersize
(size of end result; should be less or equal to thestocksize
) and finally there is the margins (inner (next to spine) and outer, top and bottom). Should the inner and outer margin be different, or is it something else that you're referring to? – Jesper Ipsen Mar 1 '13 at 12:40