<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Also, if you search for “memoir chapter styles” you’ll find a lot of information about formatting within memoir. This example shows all of the included chapter styles:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://mirror.utexas.edu/ctan/info/latex-samples/MemoirChapStyles/MemoirChapStyles.pdf" class="">http://mirror.utexas.edu/ctan/info/latex-samples/MemoirChapStyles/MemoirChapStyles.pdf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is another fruitful search: “modify memoir chapter styles”. Substitute “section” for “chapter” in the above. I think I also found this helpful:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://tug.org/pracjourn/2008-2/madsen/madsen.pdf" class="">https://tug.org/pracjourn/2008-2/madsen/madsen.pdf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Richard Séguin</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 16, 2020, at 12:21 PM, Richard Seguin <<a href="mailto:riseguin@earthlink.net" class="">riseguin@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">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:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/208791/is-memoir-class-like-an-extended-version-of-book-class" class="">https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/208791/is-memoir-class-like-an-extended-version-of-book-class</a><br class=""><br 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.<br class=""><br class="">Richard Séguin<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Jan 16, 2020, at 11:58 AM, Vamos, Peter <P.Vamos@exeter.ac.uk> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">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.<br class=""><br class="">Peter<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br class="">TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq<br class="">List Reminders and Etiquette: https://sites.esm.psu.edu/~gray/tex/<br class="">List Archives: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx<br class=""> https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/<br class="">TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/<br class="">List Info: https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br class="">TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq<br class="">List Reminders and Etiquette: https://sites.esm.psu.edu/~gray/tex/<br class="">List Archives: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx<br class=""> https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/<br class="">TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/<br class="">List Info: https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>