memoir

How does one format a letter in the Memoir document class for LaTeX?

If you have a traditional letter with content like-so. From Someone 50 Example Drive Random City, ZIP Country Tel: 444-555-6666 July 30, 2009 To Somebody 51 Example Drive Random City, ZIP Country Tel: 444-555-7777 Dear Somebody: Get off my lawn! Sincerely yours, Someone How can one create such a letter using the LaTeX Memoir c...

latex memoir, the verse environment, and \poemtitle

I am currently using the memoir class to typeset some poems. The \poemtitle command gives me a centered poem title, but I would rather have the title flush with the edge of the poem body. I have redefined the \poemtitle command to remove the automatic centering. The \verse environment coupled \settowidth{\versewidth}{} will center the po...

Is there a quick way to get titlesec "simple mode" functionality in memoir class?

Hi there. Memoir class doesn't play nice with the titlesec package. Memoir has all the functionality of titlesec, but it doesn't seem to have a nice "simple mode" analogue. So in titlesec (with the article document class) I could just use \usepackage[small,compact]{titlesec} and that was that. If I wanted to do the same thing with memoir...

LaTeX, ntheorem package and memoir document class: no room for new \count error

Hi, So I want to use memoir document class and the ntheorem package with the thmmarks option. When I try and compile a file like this, I get "no room for a new \count" errors. What can I do about this? ntheorem with thmmarks option works fine in article, and ntheorem works alright in memoir as long as I don't try and use the thmmarks op...

Latex and Memoir class, guillemot left/right.

Hi all! I am using memoir class with latex, and I need the two characters: "«", and "»". I found the following commands: \guillemotright and \guillemotleft, but they look very ugly. Is there something wrong in what I am doing? Latex source: http://pastebin.com/1w0J6jbN Result: http://cl.ly/17b03c953371c4c049e0 Any help would be v...

pdfLaTeX + memoir class compile error

Hi, I'm in the middle of writing my thesis, and was using KOMA-Script. The document compiles just fine. I stumbled upon the memoir class yesterday, and was thinking of giving it a try, so here I am trying to compile with this class instead of KOMA-Script. First compilation is OK On second compilation, the document would not build (./fo...

Using \parindent and \parskip with \paragraph{} has no effect

I'm creating documents using the memoir class in XeLaTeX. I'm having trouble creating proper paragraph presentation, and in particular my when I create paragraphs with \paragraph{}lorem ipsum LaTeX ignores the \parskip and \parindent settings. For example, if I have a document \documentclass[oneside,11pt]{memoir} \usepackage{fontspec}%...

How to remove entry "Listings" from table of content (toc)

How can I use \lstlistoflistings to create a list of listings, but not have this list as an entry in the table of content? Normally, a star helps to hide things like that and I use memoir as document class which supports and helps hiding lists like \tableofcontents*, \listoffigures*, \listoftables*, ... But adding the star like that: \l...