On Monday 22 June 2009 06:26:33 pm Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Le 22 juin 09 ā 16:06, Tad Marko a écrit :
> > I would like to extend the book layout with the "Chapterprecis" from
> > the
> > book (memoir)" layout. It is probably naive to assume this is as
> > simple as
> > copying book.layout and copying the Chapterprecis style from memoir
> > layout.
> > Can anyone tell me a bit about the proper way to do this?
>
> Is there a reason why you do not use memoir as base class? It is
> better than the legacy book.cls.
>
> JMarc
The reason that I personally never used Memoir again are:
1) Conflict with hyperref package -- must use \usepackage{memhfixc} and
\usepackage{mempatch}
2) Because it's not one of the most used document classes, there's more chance
of a distribution including the wrong memoir document class. See this:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg66880.html
3) It's hard to be an expert at several document classes, so I've put all my
effort toward becoming an expert on the Book document class. When it doesn't
give me something I need, I can either find a package to yield the desired
functionality, or I can code it myself using LaTeX.
SteveT
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