memoir and standalone package

Question

My main document is based on memoir documentclass. For inclusion of figures I use standalone package. It collaborate fine. But I have problem, how to include in figures (using standalone document class), that it can use some memoir specific formatting of document? Something like:

\docummentclass[12pt,tikz]{standalone}
\usepackage{????} %this should somehow incorporate memoir formatting
\begin{document}
   \begin{tikzpicture}
   ....
   \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

For example, memoir has somehow modified enumerate environment. If I use for exmple

\begin{enumerate}[1.]
\item some text
\end{enumerate}

gives error "item missing". Beside above example there are more cases of formatting which I like to use also in some pictures. How to do this since memoir can not be included as document style (package)?

Answer 1

The standalone class loads by default the article class internally, which can be changed using the class=<name> option.

If you want to put your enumerate environment inside a tikzpicture \node then you need also add the text width=<value> option so that the node can hold paragraph material. Otherwise you will get the same ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. as when class=memoir is missing!

\documentclass[12pt,tikz,class=memoir]{standalone}
\begin{document}
   \begin{tikzpicture}
    \node [text width=10em] at (0,0) {%
       \begin{enumerate}[1.]
            \item some text
            \item some text
        \end{enumerate}%
    };
   \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}