%% %% This file can be distributed and/or modified under the %% conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3 %% of this license or (at your option) any later version. %% The latest version of this license is in %% http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt %% and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX %% version 2003/12/01 or later. %% %% This work has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained". %% %% The Current Maintainer of this work is Lars Madsen (daleif@imf.au.dk). %% %% $LastChangedDate: 2008-03-25 11:49:43 +0100 (Tue, 25 Mar 2008) $ %% $LastChangedRevision: 20 $ %% \begin{filecontents}{chapterexample.tex} \chapter{A chapter title} Some text at the beginning of a chapter. And we add a lot of text to make sure that it spans more than one line. \par\fancybreak{$***$}\par \chapter*{A non-numbered chapter title} Some text at the beginning of a chapter. And we add a lot of text to make sure that it spans more than one line. \thispagestyle{empty} \end{filecontents} \begin{filecontents*}{process.pl} #!/usr/bin/perl # licensed under the GPL, by Lars Madsen, 2008/03/25 use Getopt::Long; my $f = ''; my $k = ''; my $p = ''; my $tmppdf = 'tmp.pdf'; my $postfix = '-style'; GetOptions('f:s' => \$f,'k:s' => \$k,'p:s' => \$p); my @styles = (); my %pages = (); print <) { chomp $l; next if $l =~ /^\s*$/; if ( $l =~ / page/ ) { ($Page) = ( $l =~ / page (.*)/ ) ; $l =~ s/ page.*//; $pages{$l} = $Page; } push @styles,$l; } close $file; for my $style ( @styles ) { compile_file($style); } print "done\n\n"; sub compile_file { my $style = shift; my @tmp = (); system("pdflatex", "$style.tex") == 0 or warn "$!"; system("pdfcrop", "$style.pdf","$tmppdf") == 0 or warn "$!"; system("mv", "$tmppdf","$style.pdf") == 0 or warn "$!"; if ( $pages{$style} || $p ) { @tmp = split /\,/, $pages{$style} ? $pages{$style} : $p ; for my $p ( @tmp ) { system("pdftops", "-eps","-f","$p","-l","$p", "$style.pdf", "$style-$p.eps" ) == 0 or warn "$!"; warn "Created $style-$p.eps\n"; } } else { system("pdftops", "-eps", "$style.pdf") == 0 or warn "$!"; } print "Done converting $style.pdf\n"; return; } \end{filecontents*} %$ \documentclass[a4paper,11pt,openany]{memoir} \def\MyFileVersion{Version 1.6, 2008/03/25} \setlrmarginsandblock{2.5cm}{*}{1} \setulmarginsandblock{2.5cm}{2.5cm}{*} \setmarginnotes{2.5mm}{2cm}{1em} \checkandfixthelayout \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{calc,graphicx,url,fancyvrb,multicol,keyval} \usepackage[draft]{fixme} \usepackage{fourier} \usepackage[scaled]{luximono} \newcommand\starbreak{\fancybreak{\decosix\quad\decosix\quad\decosix}} \usepackage[scaled]{berasans} \chapterstyle{ell} \renewcommand\tocheadstart{} \renewcommand\printtoctitle[1]{} \raggedbottom \fvset{frame=lines,framesep=3mm,fontsize=\small} \newoutputstream{StyleList} \newoutputstream{OutputStyle}% \openoutputfile{\jobname.styles}{StyleList} \def\OutputStylePostfix{-style} \def\CurrentChapterStyle{} \makeatletter % a little redefinition of keyval \def\KV@split#1=#2=#3\relax{% \KV@@sp@def\@tempa{#1}% \ifx\@tempa\@empty\else \expandafter\let\expandafter\@tempc \csname\KV@prefix\@tempa\endcsname \ifx\@tempc\relax % \KV@errx % {\@tempa\space undefined noget}% \xdef\CurrentChapterStyle{\@tempa}% \else \ifx\@empty#3\@empty \KV@default \else \KV@@sp@def\@tempb{#2}% \expandafter\@tempc\expandafter{\@tempb}\relax \fi \fi \fi} \define@key{MCS}{pages}{%\typeout{xxx: #1} \global\@namedef{MCS@pages@\CurrentChapterStyle}{#1} } \newif\ifSCS@full \newcounter{MCS} \newenvironment{@showchapterstyle}[1]{% \setkeys{MCS}{#1}% \ifSCS@full% % \gdef\CurrentChapterStyle{#1}% \edef\hest{\CurrentChapterStyle\OutputStylePostfix\space page \@nameuse{MCS@pages@\CurrentChapterStyle}} \addtostream{StyleList}{\hest}% \else% % \gdef\CurrentChapterStyle{#1}% \addtostream{StyleList}{\CurrentChapterStyle\OutputStylePostfix}% \fi% \openoutputfile{\CurrentChapterStyle\OutputStylePostfix.tex}{OutputStyle}% \ifSCS@full% \addtostream{OutputStyle}{% \protect\let\protect\STARTCODE\relax^^J% \protect\let\protect\STOPCODE\relax^^J% \protect\STARTCODE% }% \else% \addtostream{OutputStyle}{% \protect\documentclass{memoir}^^J% \protect\let\protect\STARTCODE\relax^^J% \protect\let\protect\STOPCODE\relax^^J% \protect\let\protect\clearforchapter\par^^J% \protect\STARTCODE% }% \fi% \writeverbatim{OutputStyle}}{% \endwriteverbatim\relax% \ifSCS@full% \addtostream{OutputStyle}{% \protect\STOPCODE% } \else% \addtostream{OutputStyle}{% \protect\chapterstyle{\CurrentChapterStyle}^^J% \protect\STOPCODE^^J% \protect\setlength\afterchapskip{\onelineskip}^^J% \protect\setlength\beforechapskip{\onelineskip}^^J% \protect\begin{document}^^J% \protect\input{chapterexample.tex}^^J% \protect\end{document}% }% \fi% \closeoutputstream{OutputStyle}% \edef\FancyVerbStartString{\string\STARTCODE}% \edef\FancyVerbStopString{\string\STOPCODE}% \vskip\z@\@plus\bottomsectionskip \penalty\z@ \vskip\z@\@plus -\bottomsectionskip \phantomsection \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\CurrentChapterStyle} \VerbatimInput[ label=\textnormal{\small Source for the \textsf{\CurrentChapterStyle} style} ]{\CurrentChapterStyle-style.tex}%% \par\noindent% \IfFileExists{\CurrentChapterStyle\OutputStylePostfix.pdf}{% \fboxsep=4pt% \begin{adjustwidth}{-\fboxsep-\fboxrule}{-\fboxsep-\fboxrule}% \begin{framed}% \@ifundefined{MCS@pages@\CurrentChapterStyle}{% \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{\CurrentChapterStyle\OutputStylePostfix}% }{% \edef\nisse{\@nameuse{MCS@pages@\CurrentChapterStyle}} \@for\ITEM:=\nisse\do{ \ifpdf% \includegraphics% [width=\textwidth,page=\ITEM]{\CurrentChapterStyle\OutputStylePostfix}% \else% \includegraphics% [width=\textwidth]{\CurrentChapterStyle\OutputStylePostfix-\ITEM}% \fi% \bigskip% \fancybreak{$***$}% \bigskip }% }% \end{framed}% \end{adjustwidth} }{\fbox{File \CurrentChapterStyle-style.* does not exist}} \vskip1.5\abovedisplayskip\noindent% } % the two actual environments, the stared one will let you add entire % documents, while the unstared one will only display sniplets \newenvironment{showchapterstyle}[1]{% \SCS@fullfalse\@showchapterstyle{#1}}{\end@showchapterstyle} \newenvironment{showchapterstyle*}[1]{% \SCS@fulltrue\@showchapterstyle{#1}}{\end@showchapterstyle\SCS@fullfalse} \newcommand\@Arg[1]{\textnormal{$\langle$\textit{#1}$\rangle$}} \newcommand\@Args[1]{\texttt{\{\textnormal{$\langle$\textit{#1}$\rangle$}\}}} \newcommand\Arg{\@ifstar{\@Args}{\@Arg}} \renewcommand\cs[1]{\texttt{\textbackslash #1}} \makeatother \newenvironment{syntax}{% \vskip.5\onelineskip% \begin{adjustwidth}{0pt}{0pt} \parindent=0pt% \obeylines% \let\\=\relax% }{% \end{adjustwidth}% \vskip.5\onelineskip% } \newenvironment{syntax*}{% \vskip.5\onelineskip% \begin{adjustwidth}{0pt}{0pt} \parindent=0pt% }{% \end{adjustwidth}% \vskip.5\onelineskip% } \newtheorem{remark}{Remark} \AtEndDocument{\closeoutputstream{StyleList}} \pagestyle{plain} \ifpdf \usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref} \usepackage{memhfixc} \fi \begin{document} \title{Various chapter styles for the memoir class\thanks{\MyFileVersion}} \author{Lars Madsen\thanks{Email: \protect\url{daleif@imf.au.dk}}} \maketitle The main idea behind this document is to demonstrate various either contributed or inspired chapter styles for the memoir class. If you have style you would like to contribute a style/implementation, please send it with a minimal example to \url{daleif+memoir@imf.au.dk} and I will include it into this document. \bigskip \starbreak \bigskip \noindent The visual examples you will find later in this document have all been made using external documents and included as images (eps or pdf). As such, all images are scaled to have the same width as the text in this document, therefore some images are scaled down. Also, please do not trust the spacing between the chapter title and the start of the following text. This \verb+\afterchapskip+-spacing is silently reduced (to \verb+\onelineskip+) in order to save space, the same goes for \verb+\beforechapskip+. \starbreak In any good chapter style design one should have given a thought at both the normal numbered style as well as the unnumbered style. Therefore the example text features both a numbered chapter and an unnumbered. (I have relaxed \verb+\clearforchapter+ in order to have both on the same side.) The sample text used is \VerbatimInput[ label={chapterexample.tex}, fontsize=\small ]{chapterexample.tex} \starbreak If you want to use one of the styles presented in this document, then there is no need to start retyping it all your self. Simply download the source for this document (\texttt{\jobname.tex}) from \url{http://www.imf.au.dk/system/latex/artikler/MemoirChapStyles/} (where you will find the latest version) or from CTAN, via \url{http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/MemoirChapStyles/}. Run it once through \LaTeX, then you will get a file called \Arg{Name of style}\texttt{-style.tex}, which is the source code for example displaying that particular style. Then just copy the code from there. \section*{Acknowledgement} Acknowledgement goes (of course) to Peter Wilson for creating the memoir class in the first place. But also to the people who contributed with styles or comments: Danie Els, David Chadd, Pluton (name used on \textsc{ctt}), Erik Quaeghebeur, Donald Arseneau plus the those who posted memoir chapter styles on news groups, I hope it is okay that I include them here. \section*{TODO} \label{sec:todo} Have a look at the chapter styles offered by \texttt{fncychap} and \texttt{titlesec}. \setlength\columnsep{8mm} \begin{multicols}{2} \tableofcontents* \end{multicols} \newpage \chapter{A little background} \label{cha:little-background} As you might already know the memoir class includes a feature to switch the look and feel of a chapter title on a chapter to chapter basis. This is achieved by using \verb+\chapterstyle+\Arg*{style}. The most extreme use of this is seen in \emph{The Memoir class For Configurable Typesetting -- User Guide} by Peter Wilson, also know as the \emph{Memoir manual}, \cite{memman}. In general, \LaTeX\ classes use \verb+\@makechapterhead+ to print a chapter title specified my \verb|chapter|, and \verb+\@makeschapterhead+ for \verb+\chapter*+. In memoir Peter Wilson made these two macros a bit more flexible than usual. The idea is that for numbered chapters (i.e. \verb+\chapter+ and $\texttt{secnumdepth}\geq 0$) one should think of the chapter title as build by: \begin{Verbatim} \chapterheadstart \printchaptername \chapternamenum \printchapternum \afterchapternum \printchaptertitle{The title} \afterchaptertitle \end{Verbatim} For unnumbered (i.e. \verb+\chapter*+ and \verb+\chapter+ width $\texttt{secnumdepth}<0$): \begin{Verbatim} \chapterheadstart \printchapternonum \printchaptertitle{The title} \afterchaptertitle \end{Verbatim} Note that \verb+\printchaptertitle+ is the only macro that takes an argument. At the start of every memoir chapter style these macros are initialised to \begin{Verbatim} \renewcommand\chapterheadstart{\vspace*{\beforechapskip}} \renewcommand\printchaptername{\chapnamefont \@chapapp} \renewcommand\chapternamenum{\space} \renewcommand\printchapternum{\chapnumfont \thechapter} \renewcommand\afterchapternum{\par\nobreak\vskip \midchapskip} \renewcommand\printchapternonum{} \renewcommand\printchaptertitle[1]{\chaptitlefont #1} \renewcommand\afterchaptertitle{\par\nobreak\vskip \afterchapskip} \end{Verbatim} So one just have to change the ones one need. There are a few other macros that are nice to know the meaning of. Remember that these are \emph{not} reset at the start of a new chapter style. \begingroup \renewcommand\descriptionlabel[1]{\hspace\labelsep\cs{#1}} \begin{description}\firmlist \item[beforechapskip] length, self explanatory,usually set using \verb+\chapterheadstart+, default 50pt \item[midchapskip] length, distance between the chapter name / number and the title, usually set using \verb+\afterchapternum+, default 20pt \item[afterchapskip] length, distance between the chapter title and the following text, usually set using \verb+\afterchaptertitle+, default 40pt \item[chapnamefont] the font setting used for \emph{Chapter} or similar, default \verb+\normalfont\huge\bfseries+ \item[chapnumfont] same for the chapter number, default \verb+\normalfont\huge\bfseries+ \item[chaptitlefont] same for the chapter title, default \verb+\normalfont\Huge\bfseries+ \end{description} \endgroup \noindent One might ask what \verb+\printchapternonum+ is good for when it is always initialised to nothing. Well if a design need to one could use it to insert a phantom width as wide as the chapter name plus number would have been. If on the other hand one is creating a style where the chapter name and number is actually typeset using \verb+\printchaptertitle+ (like a framed one) then one could first define a new if construction, say, \verb+\ifNoChapNum+ and then let \verb+\printchapternonum+ set this to true and so on. In memoir a new chapter style is defined as \begin{syntax} \cs{makechapterstyle}\Arg*{name}\texttt{\{} \Arg{code} \texttt{\}} \end{syntax} Where \Arg{code} is redefinitions of the macros mentioned above. (Remember that if you redefine \verb+\printchaptertitle+ then you have to use \texttt{\#\#1} to represent the title.) Activating a given style is done by simply issuing \begin{syntax} \cs{chapterstyle}\Arg*{name} \end{syntax} By the way, if you happen to like a given style but wanted to, say, add color to the chapter title, you could just refine \verb+\chaptitlefont+ after you have issued \verb+\chapterstyle+. (Even simpler to just use \verb+\addtodef\chaptitlefont{}{\color{nicered}}+.) As a simple example, here is the code for the \texttt{section} chapter style \begin{Verbatim}[label={Source code for the \textsf{section} chapter style}] \makechapterstyle{section}{% \renewcommand{\printchaptername}{} \renewcommand{\chapternamenum}{} \renewcommand{\chapnumfont}{\normalfont\Huge\bfseries} \renewcommand{\printchapternum}{\chapnumfont \thechapter\space} \renewcommand{\afterchapternum}{} } \end{Verbatim} \clearpage \chapter{Default styles included in memoir} \label{cha:defa-styl-incl} First we have the six default chapterstyles in the memoir class. The source code for these can be found in \texttt{memoir.cls}. \begin{showchapterstyle}{default} \end{showchapterstyle} \newpage \begin{showchapterstyle}{section} \end{showchapterstyle} \begin{showchapterstyle}{hangnum} \end{showchapterstyle} \newpage \begin{showchapterstyle}{companion} \end{showchapterstyle} \begin{showchapterstyle}{article} \end{showchapterstyle} \newpage \begin{showchapterstyle}{demo} \end{showchapterstyle} \chapter{Styles included in mempatch as of version 4.6} \label{sec:styl-incl-memp} These styles are available via \texttt{mempatch.sty} version 4.6, released 2006/12/15. The styles are either PWs own designs or designs found via CTT. Please see \cite{memmanadd} for further information. \begin{showchapterstyle}{bianchi} \end{showchapterstyle} \newpage \begin{showchapterstyle}{bringhurst} \end{showchapterstyle} \begin{showchapterstyle}{brotherton} \end{showchapterstyle} \newpage \begin{showchapterstyle}{chappell} \end{showchapterstyle} \begin{showchapterstyle}{culver} \end{showchapterstyle} \newpage \begin{showchapterstyle}{dash} \end{showchapterstyle} \begin{showchapterstyle}{demo2} \end{showchapterstyle} \begin{showchapterstyle}{ell} \end{showchapterstyle} \newpage \noindent Note that this style is wrongly named in \cite{memmanadd}. \begin{showchapterstyle}{Ger} \end{showchapterstyle} \newpage \begin{showchapterstyle}{lyhne} \usepackage{graphicx} \end{showchapterstyle} \newpage \noindent Please note that there is an error in this style. The unnumbered title should also be typeset raggedleft. This can be done by adding \begingroup \begin{verbatim} \renewcommand*{\chaptitlefont}{% \normalfont\Huge\bfseries\sffamily\raggedleft} \end{verbatim} \endgroup \noindent after \verb+\chapterstyle{madsen}+. \begin{showchapterstyle}{madsen} \usepackage{graphicx} \end{showchapterstyle} \newpage \begin{showchapterstyle}{pedersen} \usepackage{color,graphicx} \definecolor{ared}{rgb}{.647,.129,.149} \renewcommand\colorchapnum{\color{ared}} \renewcommand\colorchaptitle{\color{ared}} \end{showchapterstyle} \begin{showchapterstyle}{southall} \end{showchapterstyle} \begin{showchapterstyle}{thatcher} \end{showchapterstyle} \begin{showchapterstyle}{veelo} \usepackage{graphicx} \end{showchapterstyle} \newpage \begin{showchapterstyle}{verville} \end{showchapterstyle} \chapter{Styles found via Google Groups} Please note that most of the styles that were mentioned here in earlier versions of this document, are now a part of memoir and therefore removed. % By Alexander Grebenkov 2004/11/25, found via Google Groups on fido.ru.tex. \begin{showchapterstyle}{AlexanderGrebenkov} \makechapterstyle{AlexanderGrebenkov}{% \renewcommand{\chapterheadstart}{\vspace*{\beforechapskip}\hrule\medskip} \renewcommand{\chapnamefont}{\normalfont\large\scshape} \renewcommand{\chapnumfont}{\normalfont\large\scshape} \renewcommand{\chaptitlefont}{\normalfont\large\scshape} \renewcommand{\printchaptername}{\S} \renewcommand{\chapternamenum}{ } \renewcommand{\printchapternum}{\chapnumfont \thechapter} \renewcommand{\afterchapternum}{. } \renewcommand{\afterchaptertitle}{\par\nobreak\medskip\hrule\vskip \afterchapskip} } \end{showchapterstyle} \clearpage \chapter{Contributed styles} \label{cha:contributed-styles-1} First here are are few of my own. \begin{showchapterstyle}{daleif1} \usepackage{color,calc,graphicx,soul,fourier} \definecolor{nicered}{rgb}{.647,.129,.149} \makeatletter \newlength\dlf@normtxtw \setlength\dlf@normtxtw{\textwidth} \def\myhelvetfont{\def\sfdefault{mdput}} \newsavebox{\feline@chapter} \newcommand\feline@chapter@marker[1][4cm]{% \sbox\feline@chapter{% \resizebox{!}{#1}{\fboxsep=1pt% \colorbox{nicered}{\color{white}\bfseries\sffamily\thechapter}% }}% \rotatebox{90}{% \resizebox{% \heightof{\usebox{\feline@chapter}}+\depthof{\usebox{\feline@chapter}}}% {!}{\scshape\so\@chapapp}}\quad% \raisebox{\depthof{\usebox{\feline@chapter}}}{\usebox{\feline@chapter}}% } \newcommand\feline@chm[1][4cm]{% \sbox\feline@chapter{\feline@chapter@marker[#1]}% \makebox[0pt][l]{% aka \rlap \makebox[1cm][r]{\usebox\feline@chapter}% }} \makechapterstyle{daleif1}{ \renewcommand\chapnamefont{\normalfont\Large\scshape\raggedleft\so} \renewcommand\chaptitlefont{\normalfont\huge\bfseries\scshape\color{nicered}} \renewcommand\chapternamenum{} \renewcommand\printchaptername{} \renewcommand\printchapternum{\null\hfill\feline@chm[2.5cm]\par} \renewcommand\afterchapternum{\par\vskip\midchapskip} \renewcommand\printchaptertitle[1]{\chaptitlefont\raggedleft ##1\par} } \makeatother \end{showchapterstyle} This next style was made one late night for a talk about memoir in the Danish \TeX\ Users Group. It has later been used in a few master theses. \begin{showchapterstyle}{daleif2} \usepackage{graphicx} \makechapterstyle{daleif2}{ \renewcommand\chapnamefont{\normalfont\Large\scshape\raggedleft} \renewcommand\chaptitlefont{\normalfont\Huge\bfseries\sffamily\raggedleft} \renewcommand\chapternamenum{} \renewcommand\printchapternum{% \makebox[0pt][l]{\hspace{0.4em}% \resizebox{!}{4ex}{\chapnamefont\bfseries\sffamily\thechapter}}} \renewcommand\afterchapternum{\par\hspace{1.5cm}\hrule\vskip\midchapskip} } \end{showchapterstyle} % Style build upon \texttt{VZ15b}, see later. \begin{showchapterstyle}{{daleif3}} \usepackage{fourier} \makeatletter \newif\iffelinenonum \newcommand\MyNumToName[1]{% \ifcase#1\relax % case 0 \or First\or Second\or Third% \else Not implemented\fi} \makechapterstyle{daleif3}{ \renewcommand\chapternamenum{} \renewcommand\printchaptername{} \renewcommand\chapnamefont{\small\itshape\centering} \setlength\midchapskip{7pt} \renewcommand\printchapternum{% \par\chapnamefont\decofourleft\enspace% \ifanappendix \appendixname\space\thechapter% \else% \MyNumToName{\thechapter}\space\chaptername% \fi% \/\enspace\decofourright} \renewcommand\printchapternonum{\par\felinenonumtrue} \renewcommand\chaptitlefont{\huge\itshape\centering} \renewcommand\afterchapternum{% \par\nobreak\vskip-5pt% } \renewcommand\afterchaptertitle{% \par\vskip-2\midchapskip% \rule\textwidth\normalrulethickness \felinenonumfalse \nobreak\vskip\afterchapskip% } } \makeatother \end{showchapterstyle} Danie Els contributed the following style along with the BlueBox style on page \pageref{BlueBox}. \begin{showchapterstyle}{GreyNum} \usepackage{fix-cm} \usepackage{fourier}%................... Roman+math - Utopia \usepackage[scaled=.92]{helvet}%........ Sans serif - Helvetica \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{color} \definecolor{ChapGrey}{rgb}{0.6,0.6,0.6} \newcommand{\LargeFont}{% Needs a 'stretchable' font \usefont{\encodingdefault}{\rmdefault}{b}{n}% \fontsize{60}{80}\selectfont\color{ChapGrey}} \makeatletter \makechapterstyle{GreyNum}{% \renewcommand{\chapnamefont}{\large\sffamily\bfseries\itshape} \renewcommand{\chapnumfont}{\LargeFont} \renewcommand{\chaptitlefont}{\Huge\sffamily\bfseries\itshape} \setlength{\beforechapskip}{0pt} \setlength{\midchapskip}{40pt} \setlength{\afterchapskip}{60pt} \renewcommand\chapterheadstart{\vspace*{\beforechapskip}} \renewcommand\printchaptername{% \begin{tabular}{@{}c@{}} \chapnamefont \@chapapp\\} \renewcommand\chapternamenum{\noalign{\vskip 2ex}} \renewcommand\printchapternum{\chapnumfont\thechapter\par} \renewcommand\afterchapternum{% \end{tabular} \par\nobreak\vskip\midchapskip} \renewcommand\printchapternonum{} \renewcommand\printchaptertitle[1]{% {\chaptitlefont{##1}\par}} \renewcommand\afterchaptertitle{\par\nobreak\vskip \afterchapskip} } \makeatother \end{showchapterstyle} Danie notes: \begin{adjustwidth}{1em}{0pt} \itshape This looks a lot better with real italics sans-serif fonts such as Lucida Sans\\ \verb|\usepackage[expert,vargreek]{lucidabr}%.. Lucida Bright + Expert (commercial)| \\ or Myrad\\ \verb|\usepackage{charter}%........... Roman - Charter|\\ \verb|\renewcommand{\sfdefault}{fmy}%. Sans serif - Myrad (Springer bundle)| \end{adjustwidth} \starbreak \newpage This next style is inspired by a mail I recieved from Erik Quaeghebeur. It took me a little while to actually get this working as I wanted it to, partly because apparently there is a small issue regarding \cs{thispagestyle} and \cs{pagestyle} as to which \cs{chaptermark} gets used (I got around this by using the \texttt{afterpage} package). This style is designed to be used with \texttt{openleft} (i.e. chapters starting on even pages). And since the design uses pagestyles, we need to show several seperate pages. \begin{showchapterstyle*}{EQ,pages={2,4,6}} \documentclass[openleft]{memoir} \usepackage{calc} \usepackage{afterpage} \copypagestyle{EQ-pagestyle}{companion} \setlength{\headwidth}{\textwidth} \addtolength{\headwidth}{.382\foremargin} \makerunningwidth{EQ-pagestyle}{\headwidth} \makeheadposition{EQ-pagestyle}{flushright}{flushleft}{}{} \makeevenhead{EQ-pagestyle}{\normalfont\bfseries\thepage}{}{\normalfont\bfseries\leftmark} \makeoddhead{EQ-pagestyle}{\normalfont\bfseries\rightmark}{}{\normalfont\bfseries\thepage} \newif\ifNoChapNum \makeatletter % chapterpage layout \copypagestyle{EQ-chapterstyle}{EQ-pagestyle} \makeheadposition{EQ-chapterstyle}{flushright}{flushleft}{}{} \makeevenhead{EQ-chapterstyle}{% \normalfont\bfseries\thepage}{}{% \ifnum \c@secnumdepth>\m@ne% \ifNoChapNum% \raisebox{-4.5pt}[0pt][0pt]{\chapnamefont \rightmark}% \else% \raisebox{-4.5pt}[0pt][0pt]{\chapnamefont\@chapapp\ \thechapter}% \fi% \else% \raisebox{-4.5pt}[0pt][0pt]{\chapnamefont\rightmark}% \fi% } \makeoddhead{EQ-chapterstyle}{\rightmark}{}{\normalfont\bfseries\thepage} % build in the shorter headline \@namedef{EQ-chapterstyleheadrule}{% \ifnum \c@secnumdepth>\m@ne% \ifNoChapNum% \settowidth\@tempdimc{\quad\chapnamefont\rightmark}% \else% \settowidth\@tempdimc{\quad\chapnamefont\@chapapp\ \thechapter}% \fi% \else% \settowidth\@tempdimc{\quad\chapnamefont\rightmark}% \fi% \setlength\@tempdimc{\headwidth-\@tempdimc}% \hrule\@width \@tempdimc\@height \normalrulethickness \vskip-\normalrulethickness% } \aliaspagestyle{chapter}{EQ-chapterstyle} \pagestyle{EQ-pagestyle} \makechapterstyle{EQ}{ \renewcommand{\chapnamefont}{\raggedleft\bfseries\huge} \renewcommand{\chapternamenum}{} \renewcommand\printchaptername{} \renewcommand\printchapternum{} \renewcommand\printchaptertitle[1]{% \ifnum \c@secnumdepth>\m@ne% \ifNoChapNum\else\chaptitlefont ##1\fi% \fi% \ifNoChapNum% \markboth{##1}{##1}% \fi% \afterpage{\global\NoChapNumfalse}% } \renewcommand\afterchapternum{} \renewcommand\afterchaptertitle{% \ifnum \c@secnumdepth>\m@ne% \ifNoChapNum\else\par\nobreak\vskip\afterchapskip\fi% \fi} \setlength\beforechapskip{15pt} \renewcommand\printchapternonum{\global\NoChapNumtrue} \renewcommand{\chaptitlefont}{\raggedleft\normalfont\Huge\bfseries} } \makeatother \chapterstyle{EQ} \begin{document} \frontmatter \chapter{Preface} Some text at the beginning of a chapter. And we add a lot of text to make sure that it spans more than one line. \mainmatter \chapter{A chapter title} Some text at the beginning of a chapter. And we add a lot of text to make sure that it spans more than one line. \chapter*{A non-numbered chapter title} Some text at the beginning of a chapter. And we add a lot of text to make sure that it spans more than one line. \end{document} \end{showchapterstyle*} Remember that the line you see is actually the header. \newpage \noindent This next style is a modified version of a style requested on a danish forum. \begin{showchapterstyle}{jenor} \usepackage{xcolor,fix-cm} \definecolor{numbercolor}{gray}{0.7} \newif\ifchapternonum \makechapterstyle{jenor}{ \renewcommand\printchaptername{} \renewcommand\printchapternum{} \renewcommand\printchapternonum{\chapternonumtrue} \renewcommand\chaptitlefont{\fontfamily{pbk}\fontseries{db}% \fontshape{n}\fontsize{25}{35}\selectfont\raggedleft} \renewcommand\chapnumfont{\fontfamily{pbk}\fontseries{m}\fontshape{n}% \fontsize{1in}{0in}\selectfont\color{numbercolor}} \renewcommand\printchaptertitle[1]{% \noindent% \ifchapternonum% \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{X}% {\parbox[b]{\linewidth}{\chaptitlefont ##1}% \vphantom{\raisebox{-15pt}{\chapnumfont 1}}} \end{tabularx}% \else \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{Xl} {\parbox[b]{\linewidth}{\chaptitlefont ##1}} & \raisebox{-15pt}{\chapnumfont \thechapter}% \end{tabularx}% \fi \par\vskip2mm\hrule } } \end{showchapterstyle} \chapter{Vincent Zoonekynd} \label{sec:vincent-zoonekynd} Some time ago Vincent Zoonekynd published a long list of general chapter styles for \LaTeX, see \url{http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_chapter/0.html}. In this section we implement several of these styles. Special thanks to Danie Els for the BlueBox style (aka VZ39). The styles are named after Vincent Zoonekynd (VZ) and the number on the mentioned page. \begin{showchapterstyle}{VZ14} \makeatletter \newcommand\thickhrulefill{\leavevmode \leaders \hrule height 1ex \hfill \kern \z@} \setlength\midchapskip{10pt} \makechapterstyle{VZ14}{ \renewcommand\chapternamenum{} \renewcommand\printchaptername{} \renewcommand\chapnamefont{\Large\scshape} \renewcommand\printchapternum{% \chapnamefont\null\thickhrulefill\quad \@chapapp\space\thechapter\quad\thickhrulefill} \renewcommand\printchapternonum{% \par\thickhrulefill\par\vskip\midchapskip \hrule\vskip\midchapskip } \renewcommand\chaptitlefont{\Huge\scshape\centering} \renewcommand\afterchapternum{% \par\nobreak\vskip\midchapskip\hrule\vskip\midchapskip} \renewcommand\afterchaptertitle{% \par\vskip\midchapskip\hrule\nobreak\vskip\afterchapskip} } \makeatother \end{showchapterstyle} Variation over VZ15. \begin{showchapterstyle}{VZ15b} \usepackage{pifont,graphicx} \newcommand\mylleaf{\ding{'247}} \newcommand\myrleaf{\reflectbox{\mylleaf}} \newcommand\MyNumToName[1]{% \ifcase#1\relax % case 0 \or First\or Second\or Third% \else Not implemented\fi} \makeatletter \setlength\midchapskip{10pt} \makechapterstyle{VZ15b}{ \renewcommand\chapternamenum{} \renewcommand\printchaptername{} \renewcommand\chapnamefont{\Large\scshape} \renewcommand\printchapternum{% \chapnamefont\null\hfill\mylleaf\quad \MyNumToName{\thechapter}\space\@chapapp\quad\myrleaf\hfill\null} \renewcommand\printchapternonum{% \par\hrule\vskip\midchapskip} \renewcommand\chaptitlefont{\Huge\scshape\centering} \renewcommand\afterchapternum{% \par\nobreak\vskip\midchapskip\hrule\vskip\midchapskip} \renewcommand\afterchaptertitle{% \par\vskip\midchapskip\hrule\nobreak\vskip\afterchapskip} } \makeatother \end{showchapterstyle} Though I believe this style would look better without the lines. Variation over VZ21. Note the use of two different tabulars depending upon the length of the title. Also note that we use the build-in booktabs rules, and note that the thickness of these rules can be individually adjusted. \begin{showchapterstyle}{VZ21} \usepackage{calc,fourier} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \makeatletter \setlength\midchapskip{7pt} \makechapterstyle{VZ21}{ \renewcommand\chapnamefont{\Large\scshape} \renewcommand\chapnumfont{\Large\scshape\centering} \renewcommand\chaptitlefont{\huge\bfseries\centering} \renewcommand\printchaptertitle[1]{% \setlength\tabcolsep{7pt}% used as indentation on both sides \settowidth\@tempdimc{\chaptitlefont ##1}% \setlength\@tempdimc{\textwidth-\@tempdimc-2\tabcolsep}% \chaptitlefont \ifdim\@tempdimc > 0pt\relax% one line \begin{tabular}{c} \toprule ##1\\ \bottomrule \end{tabular} \else% two+ lines \begin{tabular}{% >{\chaptitlefont\arraybackslash}p{\textwidth-2\tabcolsep}} \toprule ##1\\ \bottomrule \end{tabular} \fi } } \makeatother \end{showchapterstyle} Next up is VZ23. \begin{showchapterstyle}{VZ23} \setlength\midchapskip{10pt} \makechapterstyle{VZ23}{ \renewcommand\chapternamenum{} \renewcommand\printchaptername{} \renewcommand\chapnumfont{\Huge\bfseries\centering} \renewcommand\chaptitlefont{\Huge\scshape\centering} \renewcommand\afterchapternum{% \par\nobreak\vskip\midchapskip\hrule\vskip\midchapskip} \renewcommand\printchapternonum{% \vphantom{\chapnumfont \thechapter} \par\nobreak\vskip\midchapskip\hrule\vskip\midchapskip} } \end{showchapterstyle} A variation over VZ34 (in the original the first cell in the tabular adjusts to the width of the chapter number, here it does not). \begin{showchapterstyle}{VZ34} \usepackage{calc} \newif\ifNoChapNumber \makeatletter \makechapterstyle{VZ34}{ \renewcommand\chapternamenum{} \renewcommand\printchaptername{} \renewcommand\printchapternum{} \renewcommand\chapnumfont{\Huge\bfseries} \renewcommand\chaptitlefont{\Huge\bfseries\raggedright} \renewcommand\printchaptertitle[1]{% \begin{tabular}{@{}p{1cm}|!{\quad}p{\textwidth-1cm-2em-4\tabcolsep }} \ifNoChapNumber\relax\else\chapnumfont \thechapter\fi & \chaptitlefont ##1 \end{tabular} \NoChapNumberfalse } \renewcommand\printchapternonum{\NoChapNumbertrue} } \end{showchapterstyle} Variation over VZ39, contributed by Danie Els.\label{BlueBox} \begin{showchapterstyle}{BlueBox} \usepackage{fourier} % or what ever \usepackage[scaled=.92]{helvet}%. Sans serif - Helvetica \usepackage{color,calc} \newsavebox{\ChpNumBox} \definecolor{ChapBlue}{rgb}{0.00,0.65,0.65} \makeatletter \newcommand*{\thickhrulefill}{% \leavevmode\leaders\hrule height 1\p@ \hfill \kern \z@} \newcommand*\BuildChpNum[2]{% \begin{tabular}[t]{@{}c@{}} \makebox[0pt][c]{#1\strut} \\[.5ex] \colorbox{ChapBlue}{% \rule[-10em]{0pt}{0pt}% \rule{1ex}{0pt}\color{black}#2\strut \rule{1ex}{0pt}}% \end{tabular}} \makechapterstyle{BlueBox}{% \renewcommand{\chapnamefont}{\large\scshape} \renewcommand{\chapnumfont}{\Huge\bfseries} \renewcommand{\chaptitlefont}{\raggedright\Huge\bfseries} \setlength{\beforechapskip}{20pt} \setlength{\midchapskip}{26pt} \setlength{\afterchapskip}{40pt} \renewcommand{\printchaptername}{} \renewcommand{\chapternamenum}{} \renewcommand{\printchapternum}{% \sbox{\ChpNumBox}{% \BuildChpNum{\chapnamefont\@chapapp}% {\chapnumfont\thechapter}}} \renewcommand{\printchapternonum}{% \sbox{\ChpNumBox}{% \BuildChpNum{\chapnamefont\vphantom{\@chapapp}}% {\chapnumfont\hphantom{\thechapter}}}} \renewcommand{\afterchapternum}{} \renewcommand{\printchaptertitle}[1]{% \usebox{\ChpNumBox}\hfill \parbox[t]{\hsize-\wd\ChpNumBox-1em}{% \vspace{\midchapskip}% \thickhrulefill\par \chaptitlefont ##1\par}}% } \end{showchapterstyle} Style inspired by VZ43 \begin{showchapterstyle}{VZ43} \usepackage{calc,color} \newif\ifNoChapNumber \newcommand\Vlines{% \def\VL{\rule[-2cm]{1pt}{5cm}\hspace{1mm}\relax} \VL\VL\VL\VL\VL\VL\VL} \makeatletter \setlength\midchapskip{0pt} \makechapterstyle{VZ43}{ \renewcommand\chapternamenum{} \renewcommand\printchaptername{} \renewcommand\printchapternum{} \renewcommand\chapnumfont{\Huge\bfseries\centering} \renewcommand\chaptitlefont{\Huge\bfseries\raggedright} \renewcommand\printchaptertitle[1]{% \Vlines\hspace*{-2em}% \begin{tabular}{@{}p{1cm} p{\textwidth-3cm}}% \ifNoChapNumber\relax\else% \colorbox{black}{\color{white}% \makebox[.8cm]{\chapnumfont\strut \thechapter}} \fi & \chaptitlefont ##1 \end{tabular} \NoChapNumberfalse } \renewcommand\printchapternonum{\NoChapNumbertrue} } \makeatother \end{showchapterstyle} \begin{thebibliography}{9} \bibitem{memman} Peter Wilson, \emph{The Memoir Class for Configurable Typesetting -- User Guide}, 2005. \bibitem{memmanadd} Peter Wilson, \emph{ADDENDUM -- The Memoir Class for Configurable Typesetting -- User Guide}, 2006. Latest version, released in December 2006. \bibitem{VZ} Vincent Zoonekynd. On-line list of different chapter styles for \LaTeX. Available at \url{http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_chapter/0.html}. \end{thebibliography} \end{document} %%% Local Variables: %%% mode: latex %%% TeX-master: t %%% End: