The Memoir Class
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The Memoir Class The Memoir Class for Configurable Typesetting User Guide Peter Wilson THP The Herries Press c 2001, Peter R. Wilson All rights reserved The Herries Press, Normandy Park, WA. Printed in the World The paper used in this publication may meet the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences — Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48–1984. 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 12 11 10 9 8 First edition: 3 June 2001 Second impression, with corrections: 2 July 2001 Second edition: 14 July 2001 Second impression, with corrections: 3 August 2001 Third impression, with minor additions: 31 August 2001 Third edition: 17 November 2001 Fourth edition: 16 March 2002 Fifth edition: 10 August 2002 memoir, n. a written record set down as material for a history or biography: a biographical sketch: a record of some study investigated by the writer: (in pl.) the transactions of a society. [Fr. m´emoire — L. memoria, memory — memor, mindful.] Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary, New Edition, 1972. memoir, n. [Fr. m´emoire, masc., a memorandum, memoir, fem., memory < L. memoria, memory] 1. a biography or biographical notice, usually written by a relative or personal friend of the subject 2. [pl.] an autobiography, usually a full or highly personal account 3. [pl.] a report or record of important events based on the writer’s personal observation, special knowledge, etc. 4. a report or record of a scholarly investigation, scientific study, etc. 5. [pl.] the record of the proceedings of a learned society Webster’s New World Dictionary, Second College Edition. Contents Contents i List of Figures vi List of Tables viii Preface ix Introduction to the first edition xi Type conventions . xii Caveats . xii Introduction to the second edition xv Introduction to the third edition xvii Introduction to the fourth edition xix Introduction to the fifth edition xxi Terminology xxiii Units of measurement . xxiv I Art and Theory 1 1 The Parts of a Book 3 1.1 Introduction . 3 1.2 Front matter . 3 Copyright page . 5 1.3 Main matter . 5 1.4 Back matter . 6 1.5 Signatures and casting off . 7 2 The page 9 2.1 The shape of a book . 9 The golden section and Fibonacci series . 12 i ii CONTENTS 2.2 The spread . 14 A geometric construction . 23 2.3 The typeblock . 23 Page color . 26 Legibility . 26 Widows and orphans . 29 Paragraphs and versals . 29 Footnotes . 31 2.4 Folios . 31 2.5 Headers and footers . 32 3 Picky points 33 3.1 Introduction . 33 3.2 Word and line spacing . 33 3.3 Abbreviations and acronyms . 33 3.4 Dashes and ellipses . 35 3.5 Punctuation . 35 Quotation marks . 35 Footnote marks . 37 Font changes . 37 3.6 Narrow measures . 38 3.7 Emphasis . 38 3.8 Captions and legends . 39 3.9 Tables . 39 4 Electronic books 41 4.1 Introduction . 41 4.2 Observations . 41 II Practice 43 5 Starting off 45 5.1 Stock paper size options . 45 5.2 Type size options . 46 5.3 Printing options . 46 5.4 Other options . 47 5.5 Remarks . 47 6 Laying out the page 49 6.1 Introduction . 49 6.2 Stock material . 49 6.3 The page . 50 6.4 The typeblock . 53 6.5 Headers, footers and marginal notes . 58 6.6 Putting it together . 59 Example . 62 iii The page layout of this manual . 62 7 Document divisions 65 7.1 Introduction . 65 7.2 Book divisions . 65 7.3 Sectional divisions . 66 7.4 Numbering . 68 7.5 Part headings . 69 7.6 Chapter headings . 70 Defining a chapter style . 72 7.7 Lower level headings . 73 7.8 Heading styles for this chapter . 76 7.9 Footnotes and headers . 77 7.10 Pagination and folios . 78 8 Paragraphs and lists 79 8.1 Introduction . 79 8.2 Paragraphs . 79 Hanging paragraphs . 80 8.3 Flush and ragged . 80 8.4 Quotations . 81 8.5 Changing the textwidth . 81 8.6 Lists . 83 9 Tops and tails 89 9.1 Introduction . 89 9.2 LaTeX’s ToC methods . 89 9.3 The class ToC methods . 93 Changing the titles . 93 Typesetting the entries . 95 9.4 New list of. and entries . 99 Example — plates . 103 9.5 Extras . 104 9.6 Tails . 105 Bibliography . 105 Index . 106 10 Captions and floats 107 10.1 Introduction . 107 10.2 Captions . 107 Changing the caption style . 107 Continuation captions and legends . 110 Bilingual captions . 115 Subcaptions . 117 How LaTeX makes captions . 120 Captions with footnotes . 123 10.3 Floats . 124 iv CONTENTS New float environments . 124 New subfloats . 125 Multiple floats . 126 Where LaTeX puts floats . 127 10.4 Footnotes . 132 11 Signposts and decoration 135 11.1 Introduction . ..