[OS X TeX] Book in LaTex

[Themis Matsoukas]

Peter,

the class book is very basic, memoir can do everything that book does and more. Moreover, memoir is extensively documented, its manual is 611 pages(!). To get it use cmd+option in texshop, then type memoir or meman in the window that opens. 

Themis

> On Jan 16, 2020, at 12:58 PM, Vamos, Peter <P.Vamos at exeter.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Thank you Themis. Very useful. Since posting I noticed that there is a ‘book’ document class. Do you or anyone on this list has used it? Of course it does have documentation, far too detailed to judge it.
> 
> Peter
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> From: Richard Seguin <riseguin at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Book in LaTex
> Date: January 16, 2020 at 1:21:05 PM EST
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> About ten years ago, I compared the book and memoir classes, and decided to use the memoir class. It was long enough ago though that I don’t completely remember why I favored one over the other. I probably partly relied on a general consensus I found in comments on the internet that memoir is more versatile. You could do a search such as “latex memoir versus book.” I just did that and found:
> 
> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/208791/is-memoir-class-like-an-extended-version-of-book-class
> 
> There are a lot of predefined styles for memoir (i.e. specifying the appearance of chapter titles, etc.), and I found one that was close to an aesthetic that I liked. Further searching on the internet found general methods of customizing those styles. Customizing an existing style was easier than completely defining one from scratch.
> 
> Richard Séguin
> 
>> On Jan 16, 2020, at 11:58 AM, Vamos, Peter <P.Vamos at exeter.ac.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> Thank you Themis. Very useful. Since posting I noticed that there is a ‘book’ document class. Do you or anyone on this list has used it? Of course it does have documentation, far too detailed to judge it.
>> 
>> Peter
>> 
>> 
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Begin forwarded message:

> From: Richard Seguin <riseguin at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Book in LaTex
> Date: January 16, 2020 at 1:21:05 PM EST
> To: OS X TeX TeX <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Reply-To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
> 
> About ten years ago, I compared the book and memoir classes, and decided to use the memoir class. It was long enough ago though that I don’t completely remember why I favored one over the other. I probably partly relied on a general consensus I found in comments on the internet that memoir is more versatile. You could do a search such as “latex memoir versus book.” I just did that and found:
> 
> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/208791/is-memoir-class-like-an-extended-version-of-book-class
> 
> There are a lot of predefined styles for memoir (i.e. specifying the appearance of chapter titles, etc.), and I found one that was close to an aesthetic that I liked. Further searching on the internet found general methods of customizing those styles. Customizing an existing style was easier than completely defining one from scratch.
> 
> Richard Séguin
> 
>> On Jan 16, 2020, at 11:58 AM, Vamos, Peter <P.Vamos at exeter.ac.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> Thank you Themis. Very useful. Since posting I noticed that there is a ‘book’ document class. Do you or anyone on this list has used it? Of course it does have documentation, far too detailed to judge it.
>> 
>> Peter
>> 
>> 
>> 
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