Comments on: Styling the chapter

By: gregthom

gregthom — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 05:37:29 +0000

Hey great post! How about a chapterstyle where I have the chaptertitle and/or chapternumber on a separate recto page then empty verso page then actual chapter starts on next recto page ?
Would be glad to have some pointers. I am using memoir with default settings.

Thanks, this is for the thesis.

By: Henrik Stuart

Henrik Stuart — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:27:51 +0000

You can just create a custom chapterstyle and switch to it using \chapterstyle{pichapter} before your \chapter{This is my chapter 3} and then issue \chapterstyle{mydefaultstyle} afterwards.

By: Leanne Streja

Leanne Streja — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 02:02:10 +0000

Is there anyway to modify an individual chapter. For example, I would like chapter 3 to be chapter pi or chapter 3.14159. Is that possible?

By: Henrik Stuart

Henrik Stuart — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:05:15 +0000

The easy choice is probably to check the code for the ger style and copy that and rename ger to something else. Otherwise you can dig around inside memoir.cls and check what exact variables you must override in that case. You could probably get away with:

\newcommand{\setchapterstyleger}{\chapterstyle{ger}\renewcommand{\chapnamefont}{\Large\itshape}}

but I haven’t tested it.

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 24 May 2010 19:57:03 +0000

I have a qestion again:
I have choosen ger chapterstyle (\chapterstyle{ger}), but I want to change font of word ‘chapter’ on smaller and italic font.
How can I do this?

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 23 May 2010 21:03:37 +0000

Thank you for advice. I did page style for chapter and page style for other pages, I don’t know if my solution is right but it works:

For chapter page:
\makepagestyle{mychapter}
\makefootrule{mychapter}{\textwidth}{\normalrulethickness}{\footruleskip}
\makeoddfoot{mychapter}{}{\thepage}{}
\thispagestyle{mychapter} %only for this page
\aliaspagestyle{chapter}{mychapter}
For other pages:
\makepagestyle{mystyl}
\makeheadrule{mystyl}{\textwidth}{\normalrulethickness}
\makefootrule{mystyl}{\textwidth}{\normalrulethickness}{\footruleskip}
\makeoddhead{mystyl}{}{}{\small\rightmark}
\makeoddfoot{mystyl}{}{\thepage}{}
\pagestyle{mystyl}

By: Henrik Stuart

Henrik Stuart — Sun, 23 May 2010 17:48:52 +0000

The chapter uses a separate page style called chapter (incidentally). This is normally aliased to the plain page style, i.e. there’s only a page number at the bottom of the page. You can, however, easily re-alias this to your page style using:

\aliaspagestyle{chapter}{mystyle}

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 23 May 2010 13:26:23 +0000

Thanks for ‘Styling the chapter’
I have a question: I am using this:
\makepagestyle{mystyle}
\makeheadrule{mystyle}{\textwidth}{\normalrulethickness}
\makefootrule{mystyle}{\textwidth}{\normalrulethickness}{\footruleskip}
\pagestyle{mystyle}
but page with \chapter has no additional line in header and foot. With header is ok, I do not want to have line, but line in foot is necessary. How can I add a line in foot?

By: Henrik Stuart

Henrik Stuart — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:01:05 +0000

Thank you Sebastian. \makechapterstyle is defined in memoir (I should perhaps mention in every post that I expect people to be using this document class, but that also gets tedious). There are, of course, times when you cannot use memoir (as in having mandated a document class by someone else), but in all cases where you consider using article, book, report, or one of the other “simple” document classes, you really want to be using memoir instead as it offers you a very fine-grained control over your end result.

By: Henrik Stuart

Henrik Stuart — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:57:54 +0000

Thank you. Styling the header and footer is detailed in my post at here.