{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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is there a way to avoid short lines?

Is there a universal setting to tell TeX that the last line of a paragraph can not have just one word? For instance, instead of this: This is a sample paragraph and there is one word here. you ...
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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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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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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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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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Modify default memoir chapter style

I'm using memoir and using its default chapter style. what I'm looking to do is to change the format from chapter 1 chapter title to something like this: chapter 1: chapter title I'm ...
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Letterspacing memoir section headers

I'd like to add letterspacing to the \section commands with \setsecheadstyle in a memoir book. I tried using soul: \sodef\soSection{}{.1em}{.5em plus.1em}{.1em plus.1em minus.1em} ...
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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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“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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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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Get current “section” name without label

Update: I accepted the solution provided by Heiko Oberdiek, because that was doing exactly what I asked. When interested only in the chapter name, egreg's solution works fine. However, to get it ...
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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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Placing listing and figure side by side in memoir

I am writing a document using the memoir class where I want to place listings (with the listings package) and figures side by side. My first approach was to save the listing in a box and use subbottom ...
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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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Latex and Thai language

I try to use Latex with Thai language. I found a few problems. \usepackage[Lenny]{fncychap}does not completely support Thai font. (TH Sarabun New is an opentype font) \bibliography{bib} do not ...
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\DoubleSpacing not working as described [closed]

Page 48 of the memoir manual states this about using \DoubleSpacing: The spacing in footnotes and floats (e.g., captions) is un- altered, which is usually required once the controllers see what ...
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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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two chapters on same page in memoir

I am writing a preface, which consists of roughly ten sentences describing my work. I have to write this in both English and Swedish. Same content, merely different languages. I have chosen to have ...
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Automatically insert a \newpage after chapter headings

I'm writing a book using memoir, and I'd like each chapter's text to begin on a new page after the chapter headings (so each chapter heading stands on a page by itself). Is there a way to make this ...
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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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How to change chapter font style in the middle of the Table of the Contents?

What I do have, is grouped frontmatter entries (chapter-like) in ToC, and the rest of the chapters have larger vertical space. What I want is to change the font style of the grouped part to, say, ...
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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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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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Left-aligning authors section in an article

I want to align the authors section of my article to the left. If there are more than one authors, each author should be aligned left in its own cell. I am using memoir's article class. This is what ...
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Changes in spacing (“Spacing” environment) for a block should not affect the line spacing of the block to the material above and below

When I use memoir with \OnehalfSpacing and I temporarily set things within \begin{Spacing}{1}[...]\end{Spacing} (\SingleSpacing for some reason leads to looser spacing elsewhere in my document), I get ...
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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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How to display cover page alone in the “two page view” mode

For some pdf ebooks, Adobe Reader displays the cover page alone even though the display mode is "two page view". Other than the cover page, the rest of the pdf content is displayed as two pages at ...
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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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